sallow, sickly
(adjective) unhealthy looking
ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy
(adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness; “my poor ailing grandmother”; “feeling a bit indisposed today”; “you look a little peaked”; “feeling poorly”; “a sickly child”; “is unwell and can’t come to work”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sickly (comparative sicklier, superlative sickliest)
Frequently ill or in poor health.
Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.
(of a plant) Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth.
Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.
Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (of light) not very bright.
Synonyms: faint, pale, wan
Lacking intensity or vigour.
Synonyms: faint, feeble, insipid, weak
Associated with poor moral or mental well-being.
Synonym: unhealthy
Tending to produce nausea.
Synonyms: nauseating, sickening
Overly sweet.
Synonyms: cloying, saccharine
(obsolete) Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (of a period of time).
(obsolete) Tending to produce disease or poor health.
Synonyms: insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome
sickly (third-person singular simple present sicklies, present participle sicklying, simple past and past participle sicklied)
(transitive, archaic, literary) To make (something) sickly.
(intransitive, rare) To become sickly.
sickly (comparative more sickly, superlative most sickly)
In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness.
Source: Wiktionary
Sick"ly, a. [Compar. Sicklier; superl. Sickliest.]
1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak.
2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper.
3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden. Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble.
4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
Syn.
– Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
Sick"ly, adv.
Definition: In a sick manner or condition; ill. My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. Chaucer.
Sick"ly, v. t.
Definition: To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.] Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak. Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. Jeffrey.
Sick, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] Etym: [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. seĂłc; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]
1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.
2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.
4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. Fuller. Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital.
– Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick.
– Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.
– Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea.
– Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick.
– Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.
Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]
Syn.
– Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.
Sick, n.
Definition: Sickness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sick, v. i.
Definition: To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 December 2024
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
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