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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. unhealthy looking;
[syn: sallow, sickly]

2. somewhat ill or prone to illness;
- Example: "my poor ailing grandmother"
- Example: "feeling a bit indisposed today"
- Example: "you look a little peaked"
- Example: "feeling poorly"
- Example: "a sickly child"
- Example: "is unwell and can't come to work"
[syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sickly \Sick"ly\, adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill. [1913 Webster] My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sickly \Sick"ly\, v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.] [1913 Webster] Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sickly \Sick"ly\, a. [Compar. Sicklier; superl. Sickliest.] 1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. [1913 Webster] This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. [1913 Webster] The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. --Keble. [1913 Webster] 4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality. [1913 Webster] Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sickly adj 1: unhealthy looking [syn: sallow, sickly] 2: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy]