'Sick' definitions:
Definition of 'sick'
From: WordNet
adjective
Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" [syn: ill, sick] [ant: well]
adjective
adjective
Affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
adjective
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)]
adjective
(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]
adjective
Deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
adjective
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]
noun
People who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
verb
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]
Definition of 'Sick'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i. 30. [1913 Webster]
- Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv. 18. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. [1913 Webster]
- He was not so sick of his master as of his work. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sick'
From: GCIDE
- Sick \Sick\, n. Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sick'
From: GCIDE
- Sick \Sick\, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sick'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Sick'
- Sicklied,
- Sickly,
- Sickness,
- be sick,
- sick of,
- Claw sickness,
- Falling sickness,
- Gall sickness,
- Green sickness,
- Heart sickness,
- Milk sickness,
- Morning sickness,
- Sick bay,
- Sick bed,
- Sick berth,
- Sick headache,
- Sick list,
- Sick room,
- Sweating sickness,
- air sick,
- air sickness,
- altitude sickness,
- anointing of the sick,
- car sickness,
- decompression sickness,
- iron sickness,
- motion sickness,
- mountain sickness,
- ozone sickness,
- radiation sickness,
- serum sickness,
- sick bag,
- sick benefit,
- sick call,
- sick joke,
- sick leave,
- sick mind,
- sick parade,
- sick pay,
- sick person,
- sickness benefit,
- sleeping sickness,
- sleepy sickness,
- space sickness,
- Fancy-sick,
- Guilt-sick,
- Iron-sick,
- Love-sick,
- Love-sickness,
- Sick-brained,
- Turn-sick,
- milk-sick,
- sick-abed