sick
Adjective
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Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function (synset 302552072)
"ill from the monotony of his suffering"also:similar to:
- 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
- consumptive - afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis
- convalescent, recovering - returning to health after illness or debility
- delirious, hallucinating - experiencing delirium
- diabetic - suffering from diabetes
- dizzy, giddy, vertiginous, woozy - having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
- dyspeptic - suffering from dyspepsia
- faint, light, light-headed, lightheaded, swooning - weak and likely to lose consciousness
- feverish, feverous - having or affected by a fever
- funny - experiencing odd bodily sensations
- gouty - suffering from gout
- green - looking pale and unhealthy
- laid low, stricken - put out of action (by illness)
- laid up - ill and usually confined
- milk-sick - affected with or related to milk sickness
- nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish - feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
- palsied - affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor
- paralytic, paralyzed - affected 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
same as: ill -
Feeling nausea;
Feeling about to vomit (synset 302556459) -
Affected with madness or insanity (synset 302082451)
"a man who had gone mad"similar to: insane - afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement
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Having a strong distaste from surfeit (synset 301811926)
"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 to: displeased - not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure
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(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness;
Dim or feeble (synset 302333753)"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 to: weak - wanting in physical strength -
Deeply affected by a strong feeling (synset 301564558)
"sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
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Shockingly repellent;
Inspiring horror (synset 300197276)"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 to: alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger
Noun
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People who are sick (synset 107967004)
"they devote their lives to caring for the sick"is a type of: people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Verb
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Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth (synset 200076153)
"After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
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