Definition of Sick
1. Noun. People who are sick. "They devote their lives to caring for the sick"
2. Verb. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth. "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
Generic synonyms: Egest, Eliminate, Excrete, Pass
Derivative terms: Disgorgement, Puke, Puking, Regurgitation, Retch, Spewer, Vomit, Vomit, Vomit, Vomiter, Vomiting
Antonyms: Keep Down
3. Adjective. Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function. "Ill from the monotony of his suffering"
Also: Unfit, Unhealthy
Similar to: Afflicted, Stricken, Aguish, Ailing, Indisposed, Peaked, Poorly, Seedy, Sickly, Under The Weather, Unwell, Air Sick, Airsick, Carsick, Seasick, Autistic, Bedfast, Bedrid, Bedridden, Sick-abed, Bilious, Liverish, Livery, Bronchitic, Consumptive, Convalescent, Recovering, Delirious, Hallucinating, Diabetic, Dizzy, Giddy, Vertiginous, Woozy, Dyspeptic, Faint, Light, Light-headed, Lightheaded, Swooning, Feverish, Feverous, Funny, Gouty, Green, Laid Low, Stricken, Laid Up, Milk-sick, Nauseated, Nauseous, Queasy, Sickish, Palsied, Paralytic, Paralyzed, Paraplegic, Rachitic, Rickety, Scrofulous, Sneezy, Spastic, Tubercular, Tuberculous, Unhealed, Upset
Derivative terms: Illness, Sickness
Antonyms: Well
4. Adjective. Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit.
Similar to: Ill
Derivative terms: Nausea, Queasiness, Sickness
5. Adjective. Affected with madness or insanity. "A man who had gone mad"
Similar to: Insane
Derivative terms: Craze, Craziness, Dementedness, Madness
6. Adjective. Having a strong distaste from surfeit. "Tired of the noise and smoke"
7. Adjective. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble. "The wan light of dawn"
8. Adjective. Deeply affected by a strong feeling. "She was sick with longing"
9. Adjective. Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror. "Macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
Similar to: Alarming
Derivative terms: Ghastliness, Grimness, Gruesomeness
Definition of Sick
1. a. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
2. n. Sickness.
3. v. i. To fall sick; to sicken.
Definition of Sick
1. affected with disease or ill health [adj SICKER, SICKEST] / to sic [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: sic
Medical Definition of Sick
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1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. "Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever." (Mark i. 30) "Behold them that are sick with famine." (Jer. Xiv. 18)
2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; with of; as, to be sick of flattery. "He was not so sick of his master as of his work." (L'Estrange)
4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. "So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.
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