sickly as an adjective: - 1
- 2
sickly
adjective
1 sickly
Unhealthy looking.
synonym: sallow.
2 sickly
Somewhat ill or prone to illness:
— A sickly child.
synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, under the weather, unwell.
Roget 160:
weak,
feeble,
debile†;
impotent
etc.
158;
relaxed,
unnerved,
etc.
v.;
sapless,
strengthless†,
powerless;
weakly,
unstrung,
flaccid,
adynamic†,
asthenic†;
nervous.
soft,
effeminate,
feminate†,
womanly.
frail,
fragile,
shattery†;
flimsy,
unsubstantial,
insubstantial,
gimcrack,
gingerbread;
rickety,
creaky,
creaking,
cranky;
craichy†;
drooping,
tottering
etc.
v..
broken,
lame,
withered,
shattered,
shaken,
crazy,
shaky;
palsied
etc.
158;
decrepit.
languid,
poor,
infirm;
faint,
faintish†;
sickly
etc.
(disease)
655;
dull,
slack,
evanid†,
spent,
short-winded,
effete;
weather-beaten;
decayed,
rotten,
worn,
seedy,
languishing,
wasted,
washy,
laid low,
pulled down,
the worse for wear.
unstrengthened
etc.
159†,
unsupported,
unaided,
unassisted;
aidless†,
defenseless
etc.
158;
cantilevered
(support)
215.
on its last legs;
weak as a child,
weak as a baby,
weak as a chicken,
weak as a cat,
weak as a rat;
weak as water,
weak as water gruel,
weak as gingerbread,
weak as milk and water;
colorless
etc.
429.
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Roget 655:
diseased;
ailing
etc.
v.;
ill,
ill of;
taken ill,
seized with;
indisposed,
unwell,
sick,
squeamish,
poorly,
seedy;
affected with illness,
afflicted with illness;
laid up,
confined,
bedridden,
invalided,
in hospital,
on the sick list;
out of health,
out of sorts;
under the weather [U.S.];
valetudinary†.
unsound,
unhealthy;
sickly,
morbid,
morbose†,
healthless†,
infirm,
chlorotic [Med.],
unbraced†.
drooping,
flagging,
lame,
crippled,
halting.
morbid,
tainted,
vitiated,
peccant,
contaminated,
poisoned,
tabid†,
mangy,
leprous,
cankered;
rotten,
rotten to the core,
rotten at the core;
withered,
palsied,
paralytic;
dyspeptic;
luetic†,
pneumonic,
pulmonic [Med.],
phthisic†,
rachitic;
syntectic†,
syntectical†;
tabetic†,
varicose.
touched in the wind,
broken-winded,
spavined,
gasping;
hors de combat
etc.
(useless)
645 [Fr.].
weakly,
weakened
etc.
(weak)
160;
decrepit;
decayed
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
incurable
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
in declining health;
cranky;
in a bad way,
in danger,
prostrate;
moribund
etc.
(death)
360.
morbific
etc.
657†;
epidemic,
endemic;
zymotic†.
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Polish: chorowity
Moby thesaurus: achromatic, achromic, ailing, anemic, ashen, ashy, bled white, bloodless, cachectic, cadaverous, chloranemic, cloying, colorless, cranky, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated, delicate, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, diseased, donsie, down, drained, drawn, dull, enervated, etiolated, exhausted, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, failing, faint, fallow, feeble, flat, frail, ghastly, gray, haggard, healthless, hueless, hypochromic, in poor health, indisposed, infirm, insalubrious, insipid, invalid, lackluster, languishing, leaden, livid, low, lurid, lusterless, mat, maudlin, mawkish, mealy, mean, moribund, morose, muddy, mushy, neutral, noisome, noxious, off-color, offish, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaking, peaky, pimping, poorly, puny, reduced, reduced in health, run-down, sallow, sick, sickish, tallow-faced, toneless, uncolored, unhealthful, unhealthy, unsound, valetudinarian, valetudinary, wan, washed-out, watery, waxen, weak, weakened, weakly, whey-faced, white, with low resistance ... show more.
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