About The Word Sickly
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Sickly
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Sickly: See Also | 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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