- adjectivesick (adjective) · sicker (comparative adjective) · sickest (superlative adjective)
- affected by physical or mental illness:"nursing very sick children" · "visiting the sick and the elderly" · "we were sick with bronchitis"
- relating to those who are ill:"the company organized a sick fund for its workers"
- (of an organization, system, or society) suffering from serious problems, especially of a financial nature:"their economy remains sick"
- feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit:"he was starting to feel sick" · "Mark felt sick with fear"
- (of an emotion) so intense as to cause one to feel unwell or nauseous:"he had a sick fear of returning"
- informaldisappointed, mortified, or miserable:"he looked pretty sick at that, but he eventually agreed"
- archaicpining or longing for someone or something:"he was sick for a sight of her"
- (sick of)intensely annoyed with or bored by (someone or something) as a result of having had too much of them:"I'm absolutely sick of your moods"
- (especially of humor) having something unpleasant such as death, illness, or misfortune as its subject and dealing with it in an offensive way:"this was someone's idea of a sick joke"
- (of a person) having abnormal or unnatural tendencies; perverted:"he is a deeply sick man from whom society needs to be protected"
- informalvery good; excellent:"it was a sick party and there were tons of cool people there"
nounBRITISH ENGLISHsick (noun)- vomit:"she was busy wiping sick from the carpet"
verbBRITISH ENGLISH(sick something up)sick (verb) · sicks (third person present) · sicked (past tense) · sicked (past participle) · sicking (present participle)- bring something up by vomiting:"he was passing blood and sicking it up" · "she sicked up all over the carpet"
OriginOld English sēoc ‘affected by illness’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ziek and German siech.verb- variant of sic
Similar and Opposite Wordsadjective- affected by physical or mental illness:
- feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit:
- intensely annoyed with or bored by (someone or something) as a result of having had too much of them:
- (especially of humor) having something unpleasant such as death, illness, or misfortune as its subject and dealing with it in an offensive way:
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