What does sick mean?
Definitions for sick
sɪksick
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word sick.
Princeton's WordNet
sickadjective
people who are sick
"they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
ill, sickadjective
affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
"ill from the monotony of his suffering"
nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickishadjective
feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhingedadjective
affected with madness or insanity
"a man who had gone mad"
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"
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"
sickadjective
deeply affected by a strong feeling
"sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
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"
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
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.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
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
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
Sick
affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness
Sick
affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache
Sick
having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery
Sick
corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned
Sicknoun
sickness
Sickverb
to fall sick; to sicken
Wikidata
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
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.]
Sick
sik, v.t. to set upon, chase: to incite to attack. [A variant of seek.]
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Etymology and Origins
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
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
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sick' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2617
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sick' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1178
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sick' in Adjectives Frequency: #307
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sick in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of sick in a Sentence
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.
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.
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.
Tom Thibodeau’s sick for sure, but I love Tom Thibodeau.
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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Translations for sick
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- siekAfrikaans
- مريضArabic
- хворыBelarusian
- боленBulgarian
- malaltCatalan, Valencian
- nemocnýCzech
- больнъOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- syg, sygeDanish
- krankGerman
- άρρωστος, αρρωστημένος, ασθενής, νοσηρόςGreek
- malsanulo, malsanaEsperanto
- mareado, enfermo, enfermaSpanish
- مریض, بیمارPersian
- oksennus, sairaat, sairasFinnish
- sjúkurFaroese
- malades, malade, de maladeFrench
- siikWestern Frisian
- tinn, breoiteIrish
- tinnScottish Gaelic
- חולהHebrew
- बीमार, रोगीHindi
- hányadék, beteg, beteges, hányás, okádékHungarian
- հիվանդArmenian
- sakitIndonesian
- maladaIdo
- lasinn, sjúkur, veikurIcelandic
- ammalata, ammalati, ammalatoItalian
- 病気, ヤバいJapanese
- laraJavanese
- ავადმყოფიGeorgian
- 아픈Korean
- نهخۆشKurdish
- īnfirmus, aegerLatin
- slims, slimīgs, sasirdzis, sirdzējsLatvian
- gering, pesakit, sakitMalay
- zieken, ziek, ziekeDutch
- syke, sykNorwegian
- sxihNavajo, Navaho
- ବେମାରିଆOriya
- chory, wymiocinyPolish
- irado, doente, louco, animalPortuguese
- abătut, bolnavRomanian
- хворый, больной, блевотаRussian
- रुग्णSanskrit
- болестан, bolestanSerbo-Croatian
- zle, chorýSlovak
- bolanSlovene
- kräks, sjuke, sjuk, sjuka, spyaSwedish
- ป่วยThai
- hasta, sayrıTurkish
- хворийUkrainian
- بیمار, مریضUrdu
- bệnh, bị ốmVietnamese
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