What does sickly mean?
Definitions for sickly
ˈsɪk lisick·ly
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word sickly.
Princeton's WordNet
sallow, sickly(adj)
unhealthy looking
ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy(adj)
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"
Wiktionary
sickly(Adjective)
Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.
a sickly child
sickly(Adjective)
Having the appearance of sickness or ill health; appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; pale.
a sickly plant
sickly(Adjective)
Weak; faint; suggesting unhappiness.
a sickly smile
Webster Dictionary
Sickly
somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body
Sickly
producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate
Sickly
appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale
Sickly
tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality
Sickly(adverb)
in a sick manner or condition; ill
Sickly(verb)
to make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sickly in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sickly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of sickly in a Sentence
A crook remains always sickly infatuated to the love or likes for own looks; and the people who have doubt on this outlook can look into the lifestyle of the crafty people from the genuine history book.
I've never been a sickly person, but I did catch strep throat about three years ago, i've never had it in my entire life, but I had it. Got rid of it. Got it again.
If this is true, it would be an amazing revelation, countering the idea that Tut was a weak and sickly boy-king.
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.
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Translations for sickly
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- غثArabic
- malaltós, malaltús, malaltísCatalan, Valencian
- blass, welk, fahl, unwohl, kränklich, schwächlich, fehlbarGerman
- triste, enclenque, enfermizo, débilSpanish
- heikko, sairaalloinenFinnish
- maladifFrench
- leice, meataIrish
- enfermizoGalician
- malaticcioItalian
- aewaMāori
- slab, bolnăviciosRomanian
- ча́хлый, боле́зненныйRussian
- sjukligt, sjuklig, sjukligaSwedish
- hastalıklıTurkish
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