What does sick mean?

Definitions for sick
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sickadjective

    people who are sick

    "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"

  2. ill, sickadjective

    affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

    "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

  3. nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickishadjective

    feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

  4. brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhingedadjective

    affected with madness or insanity

    "a man who had gone mad"

  5. disgusted, fed up(p), sick(p), sick of(p), tired of(p)adjective

    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"

  6. pale, pallid, wan, sickadjective

    (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"

  7. sickadjective

    deeply affected by a strong feeling

    "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"

  8. ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sickverb

    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"

  9. vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw upverb

    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"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. SICKadjective

    Etymology: seoc , Saxon; sieck, Dutch.

    ’Tis meet we all go forth,
    To view the sick and feeble parts of France. William Shakespeare, H. V.

    In poison there is physick; and this news,
    That would, had I been well, have made me sick,
    Being sick, hath in some measure made me well. William Shakespeare.

    Cassius, I am sick of many griefs. William Shakespeare, Jul. Cæsar.

    Ammon was so vexed, that he fell sick for Tamar. 2 Sa. iii.

    Where’s the stoick can his wrath appease, To see his country sick of Pym’s disease? John Cleveland.

    Despair
    Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch. John Milton.

    A spark of the man-killing trade
    Fell sick. John Dryden, Pers.

    Nothing makes a more ridiculous figure in a man’s life, than the disparity we often find in him sick and well. Alexander Pope.

    What we oft do best,
    By sick interpreters, or weak ones, is
    Not ours, or not allow’d: what worst, as oft
    Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up
    For our best act. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

    I do not, as an enemy to peace,
    Troop in the throngs of military men:
    But rather shew a-while like fearful war,
    To diet rank minds sick of happiness,
    And purge th’ obstructions, which begin to stop
    Our very veins of life. William Shakespeare.

    He was not so sick of his master as of his work. Roger L'Estrange.

    Why will you break the sabbath of my days,
    Now sick alike of envy and of praise? Alexander Pope.

  2. To Sickverb

    To sicken; to take a disease. Not in use.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    A little time before
    Our great grandsire Edward sick’d and died. William Shakespeare, H. IV.

Wikipedia

  1. Sick

    Sick is the first single from Adelitas Ways second studio album, Home School Valedictorian, released on March 11, 2011. It is the band's third single in overall. This the band's first single to hit the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, reaching No. 29 and staying on the chart for 14 weeks. The song reached No. 2 on the US Mainstream Rock chart.

ChatGPT

  1. sick

    Sick generally refers to the state of suffering from an illness, disease or health condition. It denotes not being in a normal or healthy physical or mental condition. It can also be used informally to describe a feeling of disgust or displeasure.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sick

    affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness

  2. Sick

    affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache

  3. Sick

    having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery

  4. Sick

    corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned

  5. Sicknoun

    sickness

  6. Sickverb

    to fall sick; to sicken

Wikidata

  1. Sick

    Sick is the second studio album by Sow released in 1998. This album spawned no singles. At this time Sow comprises Anna Wildsmith with "Boys", where the Boys are Raymond Watts, Euphonic, Sascha Konietzko, Hoppy Kamiyama & Optical 8, Martin King, and Günter Schulz.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sick

    sik, adj. affected with disease: ill: inclined to vomit: disgusted: infirm: disordered: pining: depressed: indicating sickness: poor in quality: out of repair.—v.i. (Shak.) to grow sick.—ns. Sick′-bay, -berth, a compartment on a troop-ship, &c., for sick and wounded; Sick′-bed, a bed on which a person lies sick.—adj. Sick′-brained, mentally deranged.—v.t. Sick′en, to make sick: to disgust: to make weary of anything.—v.i. to become sick: to be disgusted: to become disgusting or tedious: to become weakened.—n. Sick′ener, any cause of disgust.—adj. Sick′ening, causing sickness or disgust, loathsome.—n. a scum which forms on the surface of mercury from grease, sulphides, arsenides, &c.—adv. Sick′eningly.—adj. Sick′-fall′en (Shak.), struck down with sickness.—ns. Sick′-flag, a yellow flag indicating disease on board a ship; Sick′-head′ache, headache accompanied with nausea.—adj. Sick′ish, somewhat sick.—adv. Sick′ishly.—ns. Sick′ishness; Sick′-leave, leave of absence from duty owing to sickness.—adj. Sick′lied (Shak.), tainted with the hue of sickness or disease.—adv. Sick′lily, in a sickly manner.—ns. Sick′liness, the state of being sickly, or of appearing so; Sick′-list, a list containing the names of the sick.—adjs. Sick′-listed, entered on the sick-list; Sick′ly, inclined to sickness: unhealthy: somewhat sick: weak: languid: producing disease: mawkish: feeble, mentally weak.—adv. in a sick manner: feebly.—v.t. (obs.) to make sickly or sickly-looking.—ns. Sick′ness, state of being sick, disease: disorder of the stomach: an enfeebled state of anything; Sick′-report′, a return regularly made of the state of the sick; Sick′-room, a room to which a person is confined by sickness.—adj. Sick′-thought′ed (Shak.), love-sick. [A.S. seóc; Ger. siech, Dut. ziek.]

  2. Sick

    sik, v.t. to set upon, chase: to incite to attack. [A variant of seek.]

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Etymology and Origins

  1. Sick

    A word uniformly used throughout the United States in the place of “ill,” as in our own country. This is not an Americanism, but good honest English, having been introduced to the New World by the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed in the Mayflower. Both in the Bible and in Shakespeare sick, not ill, is employed. This is one of the few instances in which the Americans have preserved a word true to its original meaning.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SICK

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sick is ranked #33530 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Sick surname appeared 680 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sick.

    95% or 646 total occurrences were White.
    2.2% or 15 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.1% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1% or 7 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'sick' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2617

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'sick' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1178

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'sick' in Adjectives Frequency: #307

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sick in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of sick in a Sentence

  1. John Honerkamp:

    You're more likely to get sick or injured if you're not getting proper sleep, because of the recovery component, sleep is a huge part of training.

  2. John Kasich:

    I want you to know I’m fed up. I’m sick and tired of listening to this nonsense and I’m going to have to call it like it is in this race.

  3. Andrea Rowland-Fisher:

    We're having hospitals from rural Minnesota that don't have capacity to take care of really sick people that can't find a place to transfer their patients, and patients are clearly suffering because they can't get the care that they need.

  4. Joakim Noah:

    Tom Thibodeau’s sick for sure, but I love Tom Thibodeau.

  5. Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell:

    The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

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