English > sick: 9 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function. |
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| Synonym | ill |
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| Narrower | afflicted, stricken | grievously affected especially by disease |
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| aguish | affected by ague / ague |
| ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy | Somewhat ill or prone to illness |
| airsick, air sick, carsick, seasick | Experiencing motion sickness |
| autistic | characteristic of or affected with autism |
| bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed | Confined to bed (by illness) |
| bilious, liverish, livery | Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress |
| bronchitic | Suffering from or prone to bronchitis |
| consumptive | Afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis |
| convalescent, recovering | Returning to health after illness or debility |
| delirious, hallucinating | Experiencing delirium |
| diabetic | Suffering from diabetes |
| dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous | Having or causing a whirling sensation |
| dyspeptic | Suffering from dyspepsia |
| faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded | Weak and likely to lose consciousness |
| feverish, feverous | Having or affected by a fever |
| funny | Experiencing odd bodily / bodily sensations |
| gouty | Suffering from gout |
| green | looking pale and unhealthy |
| laid low, stricken | put out of action (by illness) |
| laid up | Ill and usually confined |
| milk-sick | affected with or related to milk ... / milk sickness |
| nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish | Feeling nausea |
| palsied | affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor |
| paralytic, paralyzed | affected with paralysis |
| paraplegic | Suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord |
| rickety, rachitic | affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets |
| scrofulous | Afflicted with scrofula |
| sneezy | Inclined to sneeze |
| spastic | Suffering from spastic paralysis |
| tubercular, tuberculous | constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus |
| unhealed | not healed |
| upset | mildly physically distressed |
| See also | unfit | not in good physical or mental condition |
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| unhealthy | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind |
| Opposite | well | In good health especially after having suffered illness or injury |
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| Spanish | enferma, enfermo |
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| Catalan | malalt |
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| Nouns | sick | people who are sick |
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| sickness | impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism |
