sick | (adjective) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function | Synonyms: ill |
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(adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre |
(adjective) having a strong distaste from surfeit | Synonyms: disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of |
(adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged |
(adjective) deeply affected by a strong feeling | - |
(adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pale, pallid, wan |
(adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish |
(noun) people who are sick | - |
(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
sickbag | (noun) a bag provided on an airplane for passengers who are suffering from airsickness and need to vomit | Synonyms: sick bag |
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sickbay | (noun) (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship) | Synonyms: sick berth |
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sickbed | (noun) the bed on which a sick person lies | - |
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sicken | (verb) get sick | Synonyms: come down |
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(verb) make sick or ill | - |
(verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, nauseate, revolt |
(verb) upset and make nauseated | Synonyms: nauseate, turn one's stomach |
sickening | (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, vile |
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sickeningly | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: disgustingly, distastefully, revoltingly |
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sickeningness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, distastefulness, nauseatingness, unsavoriness |
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sickish | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick |
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sickle | (noun) an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle | Synonyms: reap hook, reaping hook |
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sicklepod | (noun) North American rock cress having very long curved pods | Synonyms: Arabis Canadensis |
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(noun) cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia | Synonyms: Cassia tora, Senna obtusifolia |
sickliness | (noun) The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature. | - |
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sickly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, under the weather, unwell |
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(adjective) unhealthy looking | Synonyms: sallow |
sickness | (noun) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Synonyms: illness, malady, unwellness |
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(noun) the state that precedes vomiting | Synonyms: nausea |
(noun) defectiveness or unsoundness | - |
sickroom | (noun) a room to which a sick person is confined | - |
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