Dictionary Definition
sick adj
1 not in good physical or mental health; "ill
from the monotony of his suffering" [syn: ill] [ant: well]
3 affected with madness or insanity; "a man who
had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged]
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" [syn: disgusted, fed up(p),
sick(p),
sick
of(p), tired of(p)]
n : people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the
sick" v : 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" [syn: vomit,
vomit
up, purge, cast, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant:
keep
down]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
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Adjective
en-adj er- In poor health
- Mentally unstable, disturbed.
- In bad taste.
- That's a sick joke.
- Having an urge to vomit.
- In the context of "slang": Very good, excellent, awesome.
- This tune is sick.
- In poor condition
- (sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick)
Synonyms
Derived terms
rel-top Derived terms- airsick
- be sick
- carsick
- dogsick
- fall sick
- heartsick
- homesick
- junk sick
- lovesick
- seasick
- sick and tired
- sick and twisted
- sick as a dog
- sick bag
- sickbay
- sickbed
- sick building syndrome
- sick day
- sicken
- sickening
- sickie
- sickish
- sick joke
- sickly
- sickness
- sick note
- sick pay
- sick puppy
- sicko
- sickout
- sickroom
Translations
in poor health
- Afrikaans: siek
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 疒, 病 (bìng)
- Dutch: ziek, zieke
- Finnish: sairas
- French: malade
- German: krank
- Greek: άρρωστος
- Hebrew: choleh
- Hungarian: beteg
- Irish: tinn, breoite
- Italian: ammalato, ammalata
- Japanese: 病気 (byōki)
- Korean: 아픈 (apeun)
- Kurdish: نهخۆش
- Malay: sakit
- Norwegian: syk
- Persian: (bimaar) (mareez)
- Polish: chory
- Portuguese: doente
- Romanian: bolnav, abătut
- Russian: болен (bólen) , больна (bol’ná) , больно (bol’nó)
- Serbian: болестан (bolestan)
- Slovak: chorý, zle
- Spanish: enfermo , enferma ; mareado
- Swedish: sjuk
colloquial: mentally unstable, disturbed
colloquial: in bad taste
British youth slang: very good, excellent
- Japanese: ヤバい (yabai)
Noun
the sick (collective noun)- Those people as a group who are sick.
- We have to cure the sick.
- vomit.
Synonyms
- italbrac-colon vomit See
Translations
sick people
vomit
- Finnish: oksennus
- Polish: wymiociny p
- Swedish: spy, kräka, kräkas
Etymology 2
Verb
- In the context of "rare}}
Extensive Definition
To be sick can mean:
- Having a disease, illness, or disorder (medicine)
- The act of vomiting
Sick may also refer to:
- Sick comedy, an expression used to attack the social criticism of the new late 1950s comedians
- Sick (magazine), a humour magazine
- Sick (Sow album), an album by Sow
- Sick (Massacra album), an album by Massacra
- "Sick" (Young Ones episode), the 11th episode of the British comedy The Young Ones
- "Sick, Sick, Sick", a song by Queens of the Stone Age
- SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, a 1997 documentary about Bob Flanagan
- Sick AG, a German sensor technology corporation which built the laser range-finders used on the robot Stanley
- To set a dog on something, this arose from the command "sic 'im" as a quick pronunciation of "seek 'im"
See also
- Sic, a Latin word used in writing
- Sicko, a 2007 documentary film by Michael Moore
- Sicko (disambiguation)
- Sickness (disambiguation)
- Sicks, an album by Barnes & Barnes
sick in German: Sick
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abnormal, affected, afflicted, ailing, airsick, amiss, annoyed, appalled, bad, below par, bent, bereft of reason, bizarre, blase, bored, brainsick, burdened, carsick, chagrined, comfortless, confined, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, critically ill, cronk, crook, daft, debilitated, defective, deluded, demented, deprived of reason,
deranged, desolate, desole, disconsolate, diseased, disgusted, disordered, disoriented, dispirited, distraught, disturbed, down, faint, faintish, fed-up, feeling
awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, fevered, flawed, flighty, forlorn, funny, ghoulish, good and tired,
grotesque, gruesome, hallucinated, heartsick, heartsore, ill, imperfect, in danger, inconsolable, indisposed, infirm, insane, irked, irrational, irritated, jaded, kinky, laid low, laid up,
life-weary, loco, lousy, lunatic, macabre, mad, maddened, manic, masochistic, mazed, mean, melancholic, melancholy, mental, mentally deficient,
meshuggah, miserable, moon-struck,
morbid, morose, mortally ill, nauseated, neurotic, non compos, non
compos mentis, not all there, not quite right, not right, odd, of unsound mind, off, off-color, offended, out of sorts,
peaked, peaking, peaky, peculiar, poorly, psycho, psychoneurotic, psychotic, put out, qualmish, queasy, queer, reasonless, repelled, repulsed, revolted, rocky, rotten, sadistic, satiated, seasick, seedy, senseless, shocked, shocking, sick at heart, sick
of, sick unto death, sickened, sickish, sickly, soul-sick, splenetic, squeamish, stark-mad,
stark-staring mad, strange, stricken, taken ill, tetched, tired, tired of, tired of living,
tired to death, tottering, touched, troubled, unbalanced, unconsolable, unconventional, under the
weather, unhealthy,
unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unwell, upset, wandering, wearied, weariful, weary, weary unto death, weird, witless, wobbly, world-weary, wretched