Dictionary entry details
• SICK (noun)
Meaning:
People who are sick
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
they devote their lives to caring for the sick
Hypernyms ("sick" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
• SICK (adjective)
Meaning:
Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
Synonyms:
sick; ill
Context example:
ill from the monotony of his suffering
Similar:
palsied (affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor)
nauseated; nauseous; queasy; sick; sickish (feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit)
milk-sick (affected with or related to milk sickness)
laid up (ill and usually confined)
laid low; stricken (put out of action (by illness))
green (looking pale and unhealthy)
gouty (suffering from gout)
paralytic; paralyzed (affected or subject to with paralysis)
paraplegic (suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord)
rachitic; rickety (affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets)
scrofulous (afflicted with scrofula)
sneezy (inclined to sneeze)
spastic (suffering from spastic paralysis)
tubercular; tuberculous (constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus)
unhealed (not healed)
upset (mildly physically distressed)
funny (experiencing odd bodily sensations)
feverish; feverous (having or affected by a fever)
faint; light; light-headed; lightheaded; swooning (weak and likely to lose consciousness)
afflicted; stricken (grievously affected especially by disease)
aguish (affected by ague)
ailing; indisposed; peaked; poorly; seedy; sickly; under the weather; unwell (somewhat ill or prone to illness)
air sick; airsick; carsick; seasick (experiencing motion sickness)
autistic (characteristic of or affected with autism)
bedfast; bedrid; bedridden; sick-abed (confined to bed (by illness))
bilious; liverish; livery (suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress)
bronchitic (suffering from or prone to bronchitis)
dyspeptic (suffering from dyspepsia)
dizzy; giddy; vertiginous; woozy (having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling)
diabetic (suffering from diabetes)
delirious; hallucinating (experiencing delirium)
convalescent; recovering (returning to health after illness or debility)
consumptive (afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis)
Also:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)
Meaning:
Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
Synonyms:
nauseated; sickish; nauseous; queasy; sick
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
Meaning:
Affected with madness or insanity
Synonyms:
unhinged; distracted; demented; crazy; brainsick; unbalanced; mad; sick; disturbed
Context example:
a man who had gone mad
Similar:
insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)
Meaning:
Having a strong distaste from surfeit
Synonyms:
disgusted; fed up; sick of; tired of; sick
Context examples:
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
Similar:
displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)
Meaning:
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
Synonyms:
wan; pale; pallid; sick
Context examples:
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
Similar:
weak (having little physical or spiritual strength)
Meaning:
Deeply affected by a strong feeling
Context examples:
sat completely still, sick with envy / she was sick with longing
Similar:
affected; moved; stirred; touched (being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion)
Meaning:
Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Synonyms:
ghastly; grisly; gruesome; macabre; grim; sick
Context examples:
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
Similar:
alarming (causing alarm or fear)
• SICK (verb)
Meaning:
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
vomit up; vomit; upchuck; throw up; sick; regorge; puke; be sick; barf; retch; cat; disgorge; spue; spew; chuck; regurgitate; honk; purge; cast
Context examples:
After drinking too much, the students vomited / He purged continuously / The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
Hypernyms (to "sick" is one way to...):
egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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