- Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
"The rough seas made many passengers sick";
- nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish
- Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
"sick from the monotony of his suffering";
- ill
- Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
"sick wounds";
- ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre
- Deeply affected by a strong feeling
"sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
- Having a strong distaste from surfeit
"sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick";
- disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of
- Morally repugnant or distasteful; causing disgust or strong disapproval
"he made a sick joke about the tragedy";
- unsavory [US], unsavoury [Brit, Cdn], offensive, sickening, nauseating, loathsome
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
"the sick stars";
- pale, pallid, wan
- [N. Amer, slang] Of the highest quality, skill, etc.; very good or impressive
- ace [informal], A-one [informal], crack [informal], first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch [informal], top-notch [informal], tops [informal], A1 [informal], top-class, gnarly [N. Amer, informal], excellent, first-class, fantabulous [informal], splendid, ripping [Brit, archaic, informal], mean [informal], outstanding, lush [Brit, informal], brilliant, beezer [UK, archaic], stellar [informal], awesome [informal], top-drawer, dope [N. Amer, informal], socko [N. Amer, informal], righteous [US, slang], fab [Brit, informal], crucial [slang], rad [N. Amer, slang], radical [N. Amer, slang], nang [Brit, slang], phat [slang], legit [US, slang], awesomesauce [informal], amazeballs [informal], beaut [Austral, NZ, informal], lit [US, slang], storming [Brit, informal], blinding [Brit, slang], stonking [Brit, informal], brill [Brit, informal], wicked [slang], cushty [Brit, informal], def [slang], magic [Brit, slang], smokin' [slang], smoking [slang]
- People who are sick
"they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
- [Brit, informal] The matter ejected in vomiting
"The nurse cleaned up the sick from the patient's bed";
- vomit, vomitus, barf [informal], vom [informal], spew [informal]
- Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
"The child was sick after eating too much candy"; "The sick child catted up his dinner";
- vomit, vomit up, purge, cat [informal], be sick [Brit], disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, throw up [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], hurl [informal], keck [informal], vom [informal], boak [UK, dialect], boke [UK, dialect], chunder [Brit, informal], ralph [N. Amer, informal], bring up
Sounds like: shore, sure, pshaw, si
Derived forms: sicks, sickest, sicking, sicked, sicker
See also: abhorrent, absonant [archaic], affected, afflicted, aguish, ailing, alarming, autistic, bedfast [archaic], bedrid [non-standard], bedridden, bilious, bronchitic, consumptive, convalescent, crook [Austral, NZ, informal], cruddy [informal], delirious, despicable, detestable, diabetic, displeased, dizzy, dyspeptic, faint, feverish, feverous, funny, giddy, gouty, green, grotty [Brit, informal], hungover, indisposed, laid low, laid up, light, lightheaded, light-headed, liverish, livery, milk-sick, moved, obscene, off-colour [Brit, informal], out of sorts [informal], palsied, paralysed [Brit, Cdn], paralytic, paralyzed [N. Amer], paraplegic, peaked, poorly, rachitic, recovering, repugnant, repulsive, rickety, scrofulous, seasick, seedy [archaic], sick-abed, sickly, slimy, sneezy, spastic, stirred, stricken, super-duper [informal], superior, swooning, touched, tubercular, tuberculous, ugly, under the weather [informal], unfit, unhealed, unhealthy, unwell, unworthy, upset, vertiginous, vile, weak, woozy [informal], worthless, wretched
Type of: body waste, egest, eliminate, excrement, excreta, excrete, excretion, excretory product, pass, people
Encyclopedia: Sick, Sad World