sick

/sik/
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sick

A child feels sick and stays home from school.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Affected by physical or mental illness: Experiencing a state of poor health, disease, or nausea.
    • Feeling nauseated; about to vomit: The sensation of needing to throw up.
    • Deeply affected by a strong, typically unpleasant, emotion: Overwhelmed by feelings such as envy, longing, or distress.
    • Intensely weary of or disgusted by something: Having had an excess of something to the point of aversion.
    • Shockingly repellent; macabre or horrifying: Inspiring horror or disgust, often related to death or violence.
    • (Of a color or light) Pale, faint, or weak: Lacking in intensity, vividness, or brightness.

  2. Noun:

    • People who are ill: Collectively refers to those who are unwell.

  3. Verb:

    • (Chiefly British, informal) To vomit: To eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
Usage and Examples
  • Adjective (Ill/Nauseated):
    • He called in sick to work today.
    • The smell of the garbage made her feel sick.
  • Adjective (Weary/Disgusted):
    • I am sick of all this arguing.
    • He was sick with envy when he saw their new car.
  • Adjective (Macabre):
    • The movie featured some truly sick humor.
    • They discovered a sick, grisly scene.
  • Adjective (Pale):
    • The walls were painted a sick yellow color.
    • The sick light of dawn barely illuminated the room.
  • Noun:
    • The hospital cares for the sick and the injured.
  • Verb:
    • The baby sicked up all his milk.
Advanced Usage and Nuances
  • "to be sick of" / "sick to death of": An idiom expressing extreme boredom, annoyance, or disgust with something due to overexposure.
    • I'm sick to death of hearing the same excuses.
  • "to be sick at heart": To feel deeply saddened, disappointed, or distressed.
    • She was sick at heart after hearing the bad news.
  • "to worry oneself sick": To worry so much that it makes one feel ill.
    • Don't worry yourself sick; everything will be fine.
  • "sick as a parrot" (British, informal): Extremely disappointed.
    • He was sick as a parrot after missing the penalty kick.
Variants and Related Words
  • Sicken (verb): To make someone feel disgusted or nauseated; to become ill.
    • The violence in the film sickened me.
  • Sickly (adjective): Often ill; weak and unhealthy in appearance; overly sentimental or mawkish.
    • A sickly child / a sickly sweet smell.
  • Sickness (noun): The state of being ill; a specific disease; nausea.
    • He was absent due to sickness.
  • Homesick (adjective): Experiencing a longing for one's home during a period of absence.
    • She felt very homesick during her first week at university.
Synonyms
  • Adjective (Ill): Ill, unwell, ailing, nauseated, queasy.
  • Adjective (Disgusted): Fed up, tired, weary, disgusted.
  • Adjective (Macabre): Ghastly, gruesome, grisly, macabre.
  • Verb (Vomit): Vomit, throw up, puke (slang), regurgitate.
Phrasal Verbs / Verb Phrases
  • Sick up (verb, chiefly British): To vomit.
    • He sicked up his dinner.
  • Sick on (someone) (verb, informal, often imperative): To urge a dog to attack someone.
    • The thief told his dog to "sick 'em!"
Related Idioms
  • Make someone sick: To disgust or anger someone intensely.
    • Your hypocrisy makes me sick.
  • Sick joke: A joke that is considered in very bad taste, often about a tragic subject.
    • Making fun of the disaster was just a sick joke.
  • Sick leave: Permission to be absent from work due to illness.
    • She is on sick leave for two weeks.
  • Sick note: A note from a doctor explaining one's illness and need for absence.
    • You'll need a sick note for the HR department.
sick

A child feels sick and stays home from school.

Adjective
  1. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
    • ghastly wounds
    • the grim aftermath of the bombing
    • the grim task of burying the victims
    • a grisly murder
    • gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
    • macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
    • macabre tortures conceived by madmen
  2. deeply affected by a strong feeling
    • sat completely still, sick with envy
    • she was sick with longing
  3. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
    • the pale light of a half moon
    • a pale sun
    • the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street
    • a pallid sky
    • the pale (or wan) stars
    • the wan light of dawn
  4. having a strong distaste from surfeit
    • grew more and more disgusted
    • fed up with their complaints
    • sick of it all
    • sick to death of flattery
    • gossip that makes one sick
    • tired of the noise and smoke
  5. affected with madness or insanity
    • a man who had gone mad
  6. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
  7. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
    • ill from the monotony of his suffering
Noun
  1. people who are sick
    • they devote their lives to caring for the sick
Verb
  1. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    • After drinking too much, the students vomited
    • He purged continuously
    • The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

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