Sickly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Prone to sickness.
  • adj. Of, caused by, or associated with sickness: a sickly pallor.
  • adj. Conducive to sickness: a sickly climate.
  • adj. Causing nausea; nauseating.
  • adj. Lacking vigor or strength; feeble or weak: a sickly handshake.
  • v. To make sickly: "Timidity . . . sicklies the whole cast of thought in action” ( Henry Adams).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.
  • adj. Having the appearance of sickness or ill health; appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; pale.
  • adj. Weak; faint; suggesting unhappiness.
  • v. To make sickly.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease.
  • adj. Producing, or tending to, disease.
  • adj. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
  • adj. Tending to produce nausea; sickening
  • ad. In a sick manner or condition; ill.
  • v. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Habitually ailing or indisposed; not sound or strong as regards health or natural vigor; liable to be or become sick: as, a sickly person, animal, or plant; a sickly family.
  • Pertaining to or arising from a state of impaired health; characteristic of an unhealthy condition: as, a sickly complexion; the sickly look of a person, an animal, or a tree.
  • Pertaining to sickness or the sick; suitable for a sick person.
  • Marked by the presence or prevalence of sickness: as, a sickly town; the season is very sickly.
  • Causing sickness, in any sense; producing malady, disease, nausea, or disgust; debilitating; nauseating; mawkish: as, a sickly climate; sickly fogs; sickly fare.
  • Manifesting a disordered or enfeebled condition of mind; mentally unsound or weak: as, sickly sentimentality.
  • Synonyms Unwell, Ill, etc. See sick.
  • In a sick, sickly, or feeble manner; so as to show ill health or debility.
  • To make sickly; give a sickly or unhealthy appearance to.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. unhealthy looking
  • adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness
  • Equivalent
    unhealthy    ill    sick   
    Verb Form
    sicklied    sicklies    sicklying   
    Variant
    sicklier    sickliest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    faint    healthless    weakly    diseased    languid    weak    unhealthy    infirm    feeble    ailing   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Stickley    prickly    quickly    slickly    thickly   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    feeble    wan    unhealthy    pallid    faint    ugly    greenish    unpleasant    ghastly    smoky