Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Suffering from or affected with a physical illness; ailing.
- adj. Of or for sick persons: sick wards.
- adj. Nauseated.
- adj. Mentally ill or disturbed.
- adj. Unwholesome, morbid, or sadistic: a sick joke; a sick crime.
- adj. Defective; unsound: a sick economy.
- adj. Deeply distressed; upset: sick with worry.
- adj. Disgusted; revolted.
- adj. Weary; tired: sick of it all.
- adj. Pining; longing: sick for his native land.
- adj. In need of repairs: a sick ship.
- adj. Constituting an unhealthy environment for those working or residing within: a sick office building.
- adj. Unable to produce a profitable yield of crops: sick soil.
- n. Sick people considered as a group. Often used with the.
- idiom. sick and tired Thoroughly weary, discouraged, or bored.
- v. Variant of sic2.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Affected with or suffering from physical disorder; more or less disabled by disease or bad health; seriously indisposed; ill: as, to fall sick; to be sick of a fever; a very sick man.
- In a restricted sense, affected with nausea; qualmish; inclined to vomit, or actually vomiting; attended with or tending to cause vomiting: as, sick at the stomach. Formerly, and still generally in the United States, so used without conscious differentiation from sense 1. See
syn . below. - Figuratively Seriously disordered, infirm, or unsound from any cause; perturbed; distempered; enfeebled: used of mental and emotional conditions, and technically of states of some material things, especially of mercury in relation to amalgamation: as, to be sick at heart; a sick-looking vehicle.
- In a depressed state of mind for want of something; pining; longing; languishing; with for: as, to be sick for old scenes or friends. Compare homesick.
- Disgusted from satiety; having a sickening surfeit: with of: as, to be sick of flattery or of drudgery.
- As a specific euphemism, confined in childbed; parturient.
- Tending to make one sick, in any sense.
- Indicating, manifesting, or expressive of sickness, in any sense; indicating a disordered state; sickly: as, a sick look.
- Spawning, or in the milk, as an oyster; poor and watery, as oysters after spawning.
- Nautical, out of repair; unfit for service: said of ships or boats. Sometimes used in compounds, denoting the kind of repairs needed: as, iron sick, nail -sick, paint -sick.
- Synonyms Sick. Ill, Ailing, Unwell, Diseased, Morbid, Sickly. Sick and ill are general words for being positively out of a healthy state, as ailing and unwell are in some sense negative and therefore weaker words for the same thing. There has been some tendency in England to confine sick to the distinctive sense of ‘nauseated,’ but in America the word has continued to have its original breadth of meaning, as found in the Bible and in Shakspere. Diseased follows the tendency of disease to be specific, as in diseased lungs, or a diseased leg—that is, lungs or a leg affected by a certain disease; but the word may be used in a general way. Morbid is a more technical or professional term, indicating that which is not healthy or does not act in a healthy way; the word is also the one most freely used in figurative senses: as, morbid sensitiveness, self-consciousness, or irritability. Sick and ill apply to a state presumably temporary, however severe; sickly indicates a state not quite equal to sickness, but more permanent, because of an underlying lack of constitutional vigor. See illness, debility, disease.
- To grow sick; become sick or ill.
- To make sick; sicken.
- To seek; chase; set upon: used in the imperative in inciting a dog to chase or attack a person or an animal: often with prolonged sibilation: as, sick or s-s-sick 'im, Bose!
- Hence To cause to seek or pursue; incite to make an attack; set on by the exclamation “Sick!” as, to sick a dog at a tramp; I'll sick the constable on you.
- Having floured: said of mercury.
Wiktionary
- adj. In poor health
- adj. colloquial Mentally unstable, disturbed.
- adj. colloquial In bad taste.
- adj. Having an urge to vomit.
- adj. slang Very good, excellent, awesome.
- adj. In poor condition
- adj. agriculture failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
- adj. To be tired with or annoyed of something.
- n. this sense?) Sick people in general as a group.
- n. colloquial vomit.
- v. obsolete, intransitive To fall sick; to sicken.
- v. rare alternative spelling of sic.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under illness.
- adj. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit
- adj. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with
of . - adj. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
- n. obsolete Sickness.
- v. obsolete To fall sick; to sicken.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- adj. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
- adj. having a strong distaste from surfeit
- n. people who are sick
- adj. deeply affected by a strong feeling
- adj. affected with madness or insanity
- adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- v. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Etymologies
- Middle English sek, sik, from Old English sēoc, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz (confer West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech), from Proto-Indo-European *seug- (“to be troubled or grieved”) (confer Middle Irish socht ("silence, depression"), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, "I am weakening")). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English sēoc. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I'm sick, I'm _sick_ of life, and you don't show you care for me a little bit.”
“My little mother -- you're sick, you're really _sick_, and I didn't know and I spoke so harshly.”
“I will gladly endure all and every privation; for I am sick, _sick_ of worming secrets from trusting friends, and spying upon those who shelter me.”
“Sometimes," he said, low and passionately, "sometimes I am sick with longing for her -- _sick_!”
“If you do go sick, it will be so obvious, your boss will be looking for a way to get back at you and you will probably not even enjoy your ’sick day’ As you may be left with mixed feelings of guilt, revenge and spitefulness etc,etc… towards the w**ker that you have for a boss.”
“Peter said, signaling to the waiter: "When I got that letter from Mrs. Dawson I felt sick, positively _sick_.”
“Alec was watching him, his expression sick with horror.”
Simon & Schuster: The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones
“Transferring funds from the healthy to the sick is also known as “health insurance”.”
“PINSKY: And then the community behaves like what we call a sick family.”
“The campaign showed CNN what it called a sick call treatment record from Kerry's personal files describing a shrapnel wound to his left arm.”
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New and Unholy Coinage
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dry wit, irony, sarcasm, black humor, blue humor, gallows humor, parody, Burlesque, satire, repartee, wit, deadpan and 12 more...
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Economist - a good cook
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carl Sick can also be used to denote something especially desirable; "I just won $1,000 in the lottery. Pretty sick, isn't it? Jun 8, 2009