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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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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180 Moby Thesaurus words for "sick":
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irked, irrational, irritated, jaded, kinky, laid low, laid up,
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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,
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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
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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.
Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i.
30.
Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv.
18.
2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit;
as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of;
as, to be sick of flattery.
He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
--L'Estrange.
4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
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.
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.]
Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed;
weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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