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sick·ly

(sĭk′lē)

adj. sick·li·er, sick·li·est

1. Prone to sickness.

2. Of, caused by, or associated with sickness: a sickly pallor.

3. Conducive to sickness: a sickly climate.

4. Causing nausea; nauseating.

5. Lacking vigor or strength; feeble or weak: a sickly handshake.

tr.v. sick·lied, sick·ly·ing, sick·lies

Archaic To make sickly.

sick′li·ness n.

sick′ly, sick′li·ly adv.

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sickly

(ˈsɪklɪ)

adj, -lier or -liest

1. (Medicine) disposed to frequent ailments; not healthy; weak

2. (Medicine) of, relating to, or caused by sickness

3. (of a smell, taste, etc) causing revulsion or nausea

4. (of light or colour) faint or feeble

5. mawkish; insipid: sickly affectation.

adv

in a sick or sickly manner

ˈsickliness n

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sick•ly

(ˈsɪk li)

adj. -li•er, -li•est, adj.

1. not strong; unhealthy; ailing.

2. arising from ill health: a sickly complexion.

3. marked by the prevalence of ill health, as a region.

4. causing sickness.

5. nauseating.

6. maudlin; mawkish: sickly sentimentality.

7. faint or feeble, as light or color.

adv.

8. in a sick or sickly manner.

v.t.

9. to cover with a sickly hue.

[1300–50]

sick′li•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	sickly - unhealthy looking sallow unhealthy - not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"
	2.	sickly - 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" ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, under the weather, unwell, seedy ill, sick - affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

sickly

adjective

1. unhealthy, weak, delicate, ailing, feeble, infirm, in poor health, indisposed He had been a sickly child.

2. pale, washed out, wan, pasty, bloodless, pallid, sallow, ashen-faced, waxen, peaky his pale, sickly face and woebegone expression

3. nauseating, revolting (informal), cloying, icky (informal) the sickly smell of rum

4. sentimental, romantic, sloppy (informal), corny (slang), cheesy (informal), mushy (informal), weepy (informal), slushy (informal), mawkish, tear-jerking (informal), schmaltzy (slang), gushy (informal) a sickly sequel to the flimsy series

5. insipid, pale, washed out, colourless, faint, milky, light-coloured, whitish Wallpapers are too often designed in sickly pastel shades.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

sickly

adjective

1. Affected or tending to be affected with minor health problems:

ailing, indisposed, low, mean, off-color, rocky.

Idiom: under the weather.

2. Of or associated with sickness:

anemic, peaked, sick.

Translations

شاحِب، هَزيلضَعيف، مُعَرَّض للمَرَض

bledýmdlýneduživýnezdravý

dårligsygelig

kränklich

chétif maladif malingre pâle

heilskutæpur, veillsjúklegur, veiklulegur

malaticcio debole sorriso

sykelig blek usunn

chorľavý

bolehen

hastalıklı solgun

不健康的多病的好象有病的

sickly

[ˈsɪklɪ] ADJ (sicklier (compar) (sickliest (superl)))

1. [person] (= unwell, feeble) → enfermizo, enclenque; (= pale) → pálido; [smile] → forzado; [plant] → débil

2. (= cloying) [taste, smell] → empalagoso
sickly sweet → dulzón

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

sickly

[ˈsɪkli] adj

(= unhealthy) [person, animal] → maladif/ive

(= nauseating) [smell, taste] → écœurant(e)

[colour, light] → blafard(e)sick-making [ˈsɪkmeɪkɪŋ] adj → à vomir

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sickly

adj (+er) person, appearance → kränklich; complexion, light → blass; smell, taste, food, sentimentality, colour → widerlich, ekelhaft; smile → matt; grin → schwach; climate → ungesund; sickly sweet smell → unangenehm süßer Geruch; sickly sweet smile → übersüßes or zuckersüßes Lächeln

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

sickly

[ˈsɪklɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (person) → malaticcio/a; (plant, animal) → malato/a; (smile) → stentato/a; (complexion) → giallastro/a; (taste, smell) → stomachevole; (cake) → stucchevole
sickly sweet → nauseante

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

sick

(sik) adjective

1. vomiting or inclined to vomit. He has been sick several times today; I feel sick; She's inclined to be seasick/airsick/car-sick.

2. (especially American) ill. He is a sick man; The doctor told me that my husband is very sick and may not live very long.

3. very tired (of); wishing to have no more (of). I'm sick of doing this; I'm sick and tired of hearing about it!

4. affected by strong, unhappy or unpleasant feelings. I was really sick at making that bad mistake.

5. in bad taste. a sick joke.

noun

vomit. The bedclothes were covered with sick.

ˈsicken verb

1. to become sick.

2. to disgust. The very thought sickens me.

ˈsickening adjective

causing sickness, disgust or weariness; very unpleasant or annoying. There was a sickening crunch; The weather is really sickening!

ˈsickeningly adverb

ˈsickly adjective

1. tending to be often ill. a sickly child.

2. suggesting sickness; pale; feeble. She looks sickly.

ˈsickness noun

the state of being sick or ill. There seems to be a lot of sickness in the town; seasickness.

ˈsick-leave noun

time taken off from work etc because of sickness. He has been on sick-leave for the last three days.

make (someone) sick

to make (someone) feel very annoyed, upset etc. It makes me sick to see him waste money like that.

the sick

ill people. He visits the sick.

worried sick

very worried. I'm worried sick about it.

sickly

a. enfermizo-a, achacoso-a, endeble.

sickly

adj (comp -lier; super -liest) enfermizo

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Gentle is Zarathustra to the sickly. Verily, he is not indignant at their modes of consolation and ingratitude.

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Perry does not call it altogether a sickly season."

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I can answer for it, he was a good man - as good as ever stepped upon a ship's deck - but he could not bear the feeling of a dead ship under his feet: the sickly, disheartening feeling which the men of some "overdue" ships that come into harbour at last under a jury-rig must have felt, combated, and overcome in the faithful discharge of their duty.

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So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also.

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Though always sickly and delicate Dostoevsky came out third in the final examination of the Petersburg school of Engineering.

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I drank a great deal of it and, moved by an impulse, gnawed some fronds of red weed; but they were watery, and had a sickly, metallic taste.

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Sickly by nature, I should merely be a burden upon other folks.

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She is unfortunately of a sickly constitution, which has prevented her from making that progress in many accomplishments which she could not have otherwise failed of, as I am informed by the lady who superintended her education, and who still resides with them.

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If her features were criticized separately, she was handsome rather than plain, in spite of the sickly hue of her face.

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We proceeded to dress by the gloom of a couple sickly candles, but we could hardly button anything, our hands shook so.

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WELL, all day we went through the humbug of watching one another, and it was pretty sickly business for two of us and hard to act out, I can tell you.

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"Gone, gone, sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, Where the noisome insect stings, Where the fever-demon strews Poison with the falling dews, Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air:-- Gone, gone, sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virginia hills and waters-- Woe is me, my stolen daughters!"