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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, ... show more

Roget 655: diseased; ailing etc. v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; ... show more

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 ... show more.

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