sickly

Speech parts

1. sickly - Adjective

2. sickly - Verb

3. sickly - Adverb

5. sickly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.

Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.

Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.

Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.

In a sick manner or condition; ill.

To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ailing weak poorly peaked weakly diseased feeble unwell infirm seedy indisposed under the weather sallow unhealthy wan
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Antonyms

hardy brown hale redden well sound
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Phrases with the word

sickly person sickly looking sickly cry

Derivatives

sicklier sickliest

Anagrams

slicky

Examples

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice. Stephen Fry

Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day. George Borrow

I was the worst, most sickly kid of all – 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem. Jack LaLanne

Fools die young and look sickly. American Proverb

The strong man's sport is the sickly man's death. German Proverb

Тоо many midwives deliver a sickly baby. Bulgarian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sicklily sickliness sickling sickly cry sickly looking sickly person