sick
adjective
1. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
Similar word(s): unfit, unhealthy, afflicted, stricken, aguish, ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, unwell, airsick, carsick, seasick, autistic, bedfast, bedrid, bedridden, bilious, liverish, livery, bronchitic, consumptive, convalescent, recovering, delirious, hallucinating, diabetic, dizzy, giddy, vertiginous, woozy, dyspeptic, faint, light, lightheaded, swooning, feverish, feverous, funny, gouty, green, nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish, palsied, paralytic, paralyzed, paraplegic, rachitic, rickety, scrofulous, sneezy, spastic, tubercular, tuberculous, unhealed, upset, ill
2. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
Similar word(s): ill, sick, nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish
3. affected with madness or insanity
Similar word(s): insane, brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged
4. having a strong distaste from an excessive amount of something.
- sick of it all
- sick to death of flattery
- gossip that makes one sick
Similar word(s): displeased, disgusted
5. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
Similar word(s): weak, pale, pallid, wan
6. deeply affected by a strong feeling
- sat completely still, sick with envy
- she was sick with longing
Similar word(s): affected, moved, stirred, touched
7. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Similar word(s): alarming, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre
Sentences with sick as an adjective:
- She was sick all day with the flu.
- That's a sick joke.
- I've heard that song on the radio so many times that I'm starting to get sick of it.
- This tune is sick.
- Dude, this car's got a sick subwoofer!
- sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick
noun
1. people who are sick
- they devote their lives to caring for the sick
Definition categories: group, people
Sentences with sick as a noun:
- We have to cure the sick.
- He lay there in a pool of his own sick.
verb
1. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Similar word(s): barf, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, spew, spue, upchuck, vomit
Definition categories: body, egest, eliminate, excrete, pass
Sentences with sick as a verb:
- I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor.