sickly

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

unhealthy lookingSynonyms: sallow
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”Synonyms: ailing indisposed peaked(p)poorly(p)unwell under the weather seedy

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]

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]

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]