[syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sick \Sick\, n.
Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sick \Sick\, v. i.
To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] [OE. sek,
sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak,
D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, 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.
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Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i.
30.
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Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv.
18.
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2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit;
as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
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3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of;
as, to be sick of flattery.
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He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
--L'Estrange.
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4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
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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.
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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.]
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Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed;
weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sick
adj 1: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental
function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" [syn:
ill, sick] [ant: well]
2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated,
nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]
3: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
[syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad,
sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
4: having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more
disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all";
"sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick";
"tired of the noise and smoke" [syn: disgusted, fed
up(p), sick(p), sick of(p), tired of(p)]
5: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble;
"the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late
afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale
oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan)
stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid,
wan, sick]
6: deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still,
sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
7: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds";
"the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of
burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence
of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the
Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn:
ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick]
n 1: people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for
the sick"
v 1: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave
him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch,
puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk,
regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
180 Moby Thesaurus words for "sick":
abnormal, affected, afflicted, ailing, airsick, amiss, annoyed,
appalled, bad, below par, bent, bereft of reason, bizarre, blase,
bored, brainsick, burdened, carsick, chagrined, comfortless,
confined, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, critically ill,
cronk, crook, daft, debilitated, defective, deluded, demented,
deprived of reason, deranged, desolate, desole, disconsolate,
diseased, disgusted, disordered, disoriented, dispirited,
distraught, disturbed, down, faint, faintish, fed-up,
feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, fevered,
flawed, flighty, forlorn, funny, ghoulish, good and tired,
grotesque, gruesome, hallucinated, heartsick, heartsore, ill,
imperfect, in danger, inconsolable, indisposed, infirm, insane,
irked, irrational, irritated, jaded, kinky, laid low, laid up,
life-weary, loco, lousy, lunatic, macabre, mad, maddened, manic,
masochistic, mazed, mean, melancholic, melancholy, mental,
mentally deficient, meshuggah, miserable, moon-struck, morbid,
morose, mortally ill, nauseated, neurotic, non compos,
non compos mentis, not all there, not quite right, not right, odd,
of unsound mind, off, off-color, offended, out of sorts, peaked,
peaking, peaky, peculiar, poorly, psycho, psychoneurotic,
psychotic, put out, qualmish, queasy, queer, reasonless, repelled,
repulsed, revolted, rocky, rotten, sadistic, satiated, seasick,
seedy, senseless, shocked, shocking, sick at heart, sick of,
sick unto death, sickened, sickish, sickly, soul-sick, splenetic,
squeamish, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stricken,
taken ill, tetched, tired, tired of, tired of living,
tired to death, tottering, touched, troubled, unbalanced,
unconsolable, unconventional, under the weather, unhealthy,
unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unwell, upset, wandering,
wearied, weariful, weary, weary unto death, weird, witless, wobbly,
world-weary, wretched