'Sickly' definitions:
Definition of 'sickly'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Unhealthy looking [syn: sallow, sickly]
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]
Definition of 'Sickly'
From: GCIDE
- Sickly \Sick"ly\, a. [Compar. Sicklier; superl. Sickliest.]
- 1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. [1913 Webster]
- This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. [1913 Webster]
- The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sickly'
From: GCIDE
- Sickly \Sick"ly\, adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill. [1913 Webster]
- My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sickly'
From: GCIDE
- Sickly \Sick"ly\, v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sickly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achromatic,
- achromic,
- ailing,
- anemic,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- bled white,
- bloodless,
- cachectic,
- cadaverous,
- chloranemic,
- cloying,
- colorless,
- cranky,
- dead,
- deadly pale,
- deathly pale,
- debilitated,
- delicate,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- diseased,
- donsie,
- down,
- drained,
- drawn,
- dull,
- enervated,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- faded,
- failing,
- faint,
- fallow,
- feeble,
- flat,
- frail,
- ghastly,
- gray,
- haggard,
- healthless,
- hueless,
- hypochromic,
- in poor health,
- indisposed,
- infirm,
- insalubrious,
- insipid,
- invalid,
- lackluster,
- languishing,
- leaden,
- livid,
- low,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- mat,
- maudlin,
- mawkish,
- mealy,
- mean,
- moribund,
- morose,
- muddy,
- mushy,
- neutral,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- off-color,
- offish,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- pallid,
- pasty,
- peaked,
- peaking,
- peaky,
- pimping,
- poorly,
- puny,
- reduced,
- reduced in health,
- run-down,
- sallow,
- sick,
- sickish,
- tallow-faced,
- toneless,
- uncolored,
- unhealthful,
- unhealthy,
- unsound,
- valetudinarian,
- valetudinary,
- wan,
- washed-out,
- watery,
- waxen,
- weak,
- weakened,
- weakly,
- whey-faced,
- white,
- with low resistance
Words containing 'Sickly'
- Sick,
- Sicklied,
- 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