sick, adj.
freq. cnt. 17
freq. cnt. 17
affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 12 freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 4
ill sick
sample sentences
"ill from the monotony of his suffering"
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stricken, afflicted
aguish
ailing, peaked, indisposed, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy
airsick, air sick, carsick, seasick
autistic
bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed
bilious, liverish, livery
bronchitic
consumptive
convalescent, recovering
delirious, hallucinating
diabetic
dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous
dyspeptic
faint, light-headed, light, swooning, lightheaded
feverish, feverous
funny
gouty
green
laid low, stricken
laid up
milk-sick
sick, nauseated, sickish, nauseous, queasy
palsied
paralytic, paralyzed
paraplegic
rickety, rachitic
scrofulous
sneezy
spastic
tubercular, tuberculous
unhealed
upset
feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
nauseated nauseous queasy sick sickish
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having a strong distaste from surfeit
<adj.all> (p) (p) (p) (p) freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1
disgusted fed up sick sick of tired of
sample sentences
"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"
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affected with madness or insanity
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 21 freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 1
brainsick crazy demented disturbed mad sick unbalanced unhinged
sample sentences
"a man who had gone mad"
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shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 12 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1
ghastly grim grisly gruesome macabre sick
sample sentences
"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"
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deeply affected by a strong feeling
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sick
sample sentences
"sat completely still, sick with envy""she was sick with longing"
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(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 11 freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
pale pallid sick wan
sample sentences
"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"
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