'Peaked' definitions:
Definition of 'peaked'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy]
adjective
Having or rising to a peak; "the peaked ceiling"; "the island's peaked hills"
Definition of 'Peaked'
From: GCIDE
- Peaked \Peaked\ (p[=e]kt or p[=e]k"[e^]d), a.
- 1. Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Oftener p[=e]k"[e^]d) Sickly; not robust. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Peaked'
From: GCIDE
- Peak \Peak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Peaked (p[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Peaking.]
- 1. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. [1913 Webster]
- There peaketh up a mighty high mount. --Holand. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: To achieve a maximum of numerical value, intensity of activity, popularity, or other characteristic, followed by a decline; as, the stock market peaked in January; his performance as a pitcher peaked in 1990; sales of the XTX model peaked at 20,000 per year. [PJC]
- 3. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly. "Dwindle, peak, and pine." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. [Cf. Peek.] To pry; to peep slyly. [archaic] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Peak arch (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'peaked'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acicular,
- acuminate,
- acute,
- attenuated,
- cachectic,
- cadaverous,
- capped,
- corpselike,
- crested,
- crowned,
- cuspidate,
- debilitated,
- drained,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- enervated,
- exhausted,
- failing,
- feeble,
- frail,
- haggard,
- headed,
- healthless,
- hollow-eyed,
- in poor health,
- infirm,
- invalid,
- jejune,
- languishing,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- moribund,
- pale,
- peaking,
- peaky,
- pinched,
- plumed,
- poor,
- puny,
- reduced,
- reduced in health,
- run-down,
- sharp,
- shriveled,
- sick,
- sickly,
- skeletal,
- starved,
- starveling,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- tipped,
- topped,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- unhealthy,
- unsound,
- valetudinarian,
- valetudinary,
- wasted,
- weakened,
- weakly,
- weazeny,
- with low resistance,
- withered,
- wizened,
- wraithlike