Sickly
['sɪklɪ] or ['sɪkli]
Definition
(superl.) Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
(superl.) Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
(superl.) Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
(superl.) Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
(adv.) In a sick manner or condition; ill.
(v. t.) To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.
Checker: Marie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Weak, feeble, ailing, languishing, unhealthy, piping, whining.
Checker: Yale
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Weak, diseased, disordered, ailing, feeble, pining, droop, ing, morbid,unhealthy, vitiated, delicate, tainted, valetudinary
ANT:Strong, healthy, vigorous, flourishing, salubrious, sound, robust
Typist: Trevor
Examples
- If she were sickly she would have her illusions, imaginations. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They respected a possible baronet in the boy, between whom and the title there was only the little sickly pale Pitt Binkie. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was of a sickly color, and his thin, sandy hair seemed to bristle up with the intensity of his emotion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- May be she is ill in town; nothing in the world more likely, for I have a notion she is always rather sickly. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Here, its power was only a glare: a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She looks sickly and cross. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Mr. Moore haunted his mill, his mill-yard, his dye-house, and his warehouse till the sickly dawn strengthened into day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typed by Dewey