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sick

• (a) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
  • ill from the monotony of his suffering
  ill,
• (s) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit nauseated, sickish, nauseous, queasy,
• (s) affected with madness or insanity
  • a man who had gone mad
  brainsick, crazy, demented, unhinged, mad, unbalanced, disturbed,
• (s) having a strong distaste from surfeit
  • grew more and more disgusted
  • fed up with their complaints
  • sick of it all
  • sick to death of flattery
  • gossip that makes one sick
  • tired of the noise and smoke
  disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of,
• (s) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
  • the pale light of a half moon
  • a pale sun
  • the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street
  • a pallid sky
  • the pale (or wan) stars
  • the wan light of dawn
  wan, pale, pallid,
• (s) deeply affected by a strong feeling
  • sat completely still, sick with envy
  • she was sick with longing
• (s) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  • ghastly wounds
  • the grim aftermath of the bombing
  • the grim task of burying the victims
  • a grisly murder
  • gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
  • macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
  • macabre tortures conceived by madmen
  ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, grim,

Nouns

• (n) people who are sick
  • they devote their lives to caring for the sick

Verbs

• (v) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
  • After drinking too much, the students vomited
  • He purged continuously
  • The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
  barf, be sick, puke, regorge, retch, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up, cat, disgorge, spue, spew, chuck, honk, regurgitate, purge, cast,

Synonyms

barf be sick puke regorge retch throw up upchuck vomit vomit up cat disgorge spue spew chuck honk regurgitate purge cast ill nauseated sickish nauseous queasy brainsick crazy demented unhinged mad unbalanced disturbed disgusted fed up sick of tired of wan pale pallid ghastly grisly gruesome macabre grim

Antonyms

keep down well

See also

unhealthy unfit

Words of close approximity