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Sickly

Sickly Meaning & Definition
Sickly Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sickly?

[adj] unhealthy looking
[adj] somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Sickly: ailing | ill | indisposed | peaked(p) | poorly(p) | sallow | sick | under the weather | unhealthy | unwell

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Sickly In Webster's Dictionary

\Sick"ly\, a. [Compar. {Sicklier}; superl. {Sickliest}.] 1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. --Shak. 2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. --Cowper. 3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. --Dryden. Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. --Keble. 4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality. Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
\Sick"ly\, adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill. My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. --Chaucer.
\Sick"ly\, v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.] Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. --Shak. Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. --Jeffrey.

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