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Definitions for: Sickly [adj] unhealthy looking
[adj] somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"
Webster (1913) Definition: Sick"ly, a. [Compar. Sicklier; superl. Sickliest.]
1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease;
as, a sickly body.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. --Shak.
2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a
sickly climate. --Cowper.
3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. --Dryden.
Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. --Keble.
4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell;
sickly sentimentality.
Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless;
weak; feeble; languid; faint.
Sick"ly, adv.
In a sick manner or condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
--Chaucer.
Sick"ly, v. t.
To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in
the past participle. [R.]
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. --Shak.
Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying
heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to
subside. --Jeffrey.
Synonyms: ailing, ill, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sallow, sick, under the weather, unhealthy, unwell
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