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sick
1 [sik]
adjective, -er, -est, noun –adjective
| 1. | afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing. |
| 2. | affected with nausea; inclined to vomit. |
| 3. | deeply affected with some unpleasant feeling, as of sorrow, disgust, or boredom: sick at heart; to be sick of parties. |
| 4. | mentally, morally, or emotionally deranged, corrupt, or unsound: a sick mind; wild statements that made him seem sick. |
| 5. | characteristic of a sick mind: sick fancies. |
| 6. | dwelling on or obsessed with that which is gruesome, sadistic, ghoulish, or the like; morbid: a sick comedian; sick jokes. |
| 7. | of, pertaining to, or for use during sickness: He applied for sick benefits. |
| 8. | accompanied by or suggestive of sickness; sickly: a sick pallor; the sick smell of disinfectant in the corridors. |
| 9. | disgusted; chagrined. |
| 10. | not in proper condition; impaired. |
| 11. | Agriculture.
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| 12. | Now Rare. menstruating. |
–noun
—Idioms| 13. | (used with a plural verb ) sick persons collectively (usually prec. by the). |
| 14. | call in sick, to notify one's place of employment by telephone that one will be absent from work because of being ill. |
| 15. | sick and tired, utterly weary; fed up: I'm sick and tired of working so hard! |
| 16. | sick at one's stomach, Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. nauseated. |
| 17. | sick to one's stomach, Chiefly Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. nauseated. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME sik, sek, OE sēoc; c. D ziek, G siech, ON sjūkr, Goth siuks
bef. 900; ME sik, sek, OE sēoc; c. D ziek, G siech, ON sjūkr, Goth siuks

Antonyms:
1. well, hale, healthy.
1. well, hale, healthy.
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sick 2 (sĭk) v. Variant of sic2. |
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Sick
Sick\, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]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. --Fuller. Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick. Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick. Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.] Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.Sick
Sick\, n. Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer.Sick
Sick\, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Language Translation for : sick
Spanish:
mareado,
German:
Brechreiz verspüren,
Japanese:
むかつく
sick (adj.)
"unwell," O.E. seoc, from P.Gmc. *seukaz, of uncertain origin. The general Gmc. word (cf. O.N. sjukr, Dan. syg, O.S. siok, O.Fris. siak, M.Du. siec, O.H.G. sioh, Goth. siuks "sick, ill"), but in Ger. and Du. displaced by krank "weak, slim," probably originally with a sense of "twisted, bent" (see crank). Meaning "having an inclination to vomit" is from 1614; sense of "tired or weary (of something)" is from 1597; phrase sick and tired of is attested from 1783. Meaning "mentally twisted" is from 1551 (though sense of "spiritually or morally corrupt" was in O.E.), revived 1955. Sick joke is from 1959; sicko (n.) is from 1977. Sickening "causing revulsion" is first recorded 1789. The noun meaning "those who are sick" was in O.E. Sickness is O.E. seocnesse; sickly "ailing" is recorded from c.1350.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: sick
Pronunciation: 'sik
Function: adjective
1 a : affected with disease or ill health b : of, relating to, or intendedfor use in sickness sick ward> c : affected with nausea : inclined to vomit or being in the act of vomiting <sick to one's stomach>
2 : mentally or emotionally unsound or disordered
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sick (sĭk)
adj. sick·er, sick·est
- Suffering from or affected with a disease or disorder.
- Of or for sick persons.
- Nauseated.
- Mentally ill or disturbed.
- Constituting an unhealthy environment for those working or residing within, as of a building.
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sick
In addition to the idioms beginning with sick, also see call in sick; get sick; make one sick; worried sick.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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