Sick - English meaning

adjective

In poor health.

Usage examples:

I went to see my ailing mother

verb

Trouble or afflict (someone) in mind or body.

Usage examples:

Exercise is good for whatever ails one

adjective

Affected with nausea due to travel in an aircraft.

Usage examples:

He became airsick over daggett.

adjective

Having the feeling that you will vomit because of the movement of an aircraft you are traveling in

adjective

Of poor quality or a low standard.

Usage examples:

A bad diet

adverb

Badly.

Usage examples:

He beat her up real bad

adjective

Unpleasant and causing difficulties

Usage examples:

Our holiday was spoiled by bad weather., we've just had some very bad news., watch out - he's in a …

adjective

Nauseous or inclined to vomit.

Usage examples:

I started feeling really barfy on the train into town

adjective

Affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting.

Usage examples:

A bilious attack

adjective

Relating to an illness, caused by too much bile, that can cause vomiting

Usage examples:

She suffered from bilious attacks., a bilious old man, his shirt was a bilious shade of green.

adjective

Of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white.

Usage examples:

Black smoke

verb

Belonging to or denoting any human group having dark-coloured skin, especially of african or australian aboriginal ancestry.

Usage examples:

Black adolescents of jamaican descent

noun

Another term for hamburger.

adjective

Affected with nausea caused by the motion of a car or other vehicle in which one is travelling.

Usage examples:

He felt carsick

adjective

Of extremely poor quality.

Usage examples:

I feel really crappy today

adjective

Sick

Usage examples:

He said he was feeling really crappy.

noun

The hooked staff of a shepherd.

Usage examples:

Seizing his crook from behind the door, he set off to call his dogs

verb

Bend (something, especially a finger as a signal).

Usage examples:

He crooked a finger for the waitress

adjective

Bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory.

Usage examples:

It was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s

adjective

Wilfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.

Usage examples:

People who are cruel to animals

verb

Spoil or ruin (an opportunity or a chance of success).

Usage examples:

Ernie nearly cruelled the whole thing by laughing

adjective

Extremely unkind and intentionally causing pain

Usage examples:

Her classmates made some cruel remarks., is the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment?, i thin…

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a ghoul.

Usage examples:

A ghoulish mask

adjective

Ugly and unpleasant, or frightening

Usage examples:

Ghoulish faces, he takes a ghoulish delight in reading about horrific murders.

adjective

Of the colour between blue and yellow in the spectrum; coloured like grass or emeralds.

Usage examples:

Her flashing green eyes

noun

Green colour or pigment.

Usage examples:

Major roads are marked in green

verb

Make or become green in colour.

Usage examples:

The roof was greening with lichen

phrase

(of a person) looking or feeling unwell or nauseous.

Usage examples:

I will come out probably green about the gills and may even be sick.

idiom

To look ill and pale

Usage examples:

Some of the passengers looked kind of green around the gills after the trip!

adjective

Causing repulsion or horror; grisly.

Usage examples:

The most gruesome murder

adjective

Extremely unpleasant and shocking

Usage examples:

The movie was pretty gruesome.

adjective

Suffering from an illness or disease or feeling unwell.

Usage examples:

He was taken ill with food poisoning

adverb

Badly, wrongly, or imperfectly.

Usage examples:

The street is dominated by ill-lit shops

noun

A problem or misfortune.

Usage examples:

A lengthy work on the ills of society

adjective

Slightly unwell.

Usage examples:

My mother is indisposed

verb

Make (someone) unfit for or unable to do something.

Usage examples:

Not to get one's sleep indisposes one for the whole day

adjective

Ill, especially in a way that makes you unable to do something

Usage examples:

Sheila jones is indisposed, so the part of the countess will be sung tonight by della drake., indis…

adjective

Disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death.

Usage examples:

A macabre series of murders

adjective

Causing shock and fear because connected with death, esp. strange or cruel death

Usage examples:

After the diagnosis, he said he just wanted to stay “above ground,” she recalled, smiling at his ma…

adjective

Characterized by an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.

Usage examples:

His morbid fascination with the horrors of contemporary warfare

adjective

Too interested in unpleasant subjects, esp. death

Usage examples:

He has a morbid sense of humor.

verb

Affect with nausea.

Usage examples:

The thought of food nauseated her

adjective

Feeling as if you are going to vomit

Usage examples:

He didn’t become nauseated by the treatments at all.

adjective

Affected with nausea; feeling inclined to vomit.

Usage examples:

A rancid odour that made him nauseous

adjective

Feeling that you are likely to vomit, or causing this feeling

Usage examples:

He felt nauseous and dehydrated., unpleasant, nauseous odors

adverb

Away from the place in question; to or at a distance.

Usage examples:

The man ran off

preposition

Moving away and often down from.

Usage examples:

He rolled off the bed

adjective

Characterized by performing or feeling worse than usual; unsatisfactory or inadequate.

Usage examples:

Even the greatest athletes have off days

adjective

Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed.

Usage examples:

The allegations made are deeply offensive to us

noun

An attacking military campaign.

Usage examples:

An impending military offensive against the guerrillas

Unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses

phrase

Slightly unwell.

Usage examples:

She's been feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts

idiom

In an unhappy mood

Usage examples:

Peter overslept this morning and has been out of sorts all day.

adjective

(of a person or their actions) characterized by sexually abnormal and unacceptable practices or tendencies.

Usage examples:

He whispered perverted obscenities

verb

Distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of (something).

Usage examples:

He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice

adjective

(of an idea, policy, etc.) changed from its correct use or original purpose

Usage examples:

He used a perverted form of nationalism to incite anger among the crowd., you need not state the pa…

adverb

In a way that is unsatisfactory or inadequate.

Usage examples:

Schools that were performing poorly

adjective

Unwell.

Usage examples:

She looked poorly

adverb

Not well

Usage examples:

A business as poorly managed as that one doesn't deserve to succeed., he says he's feeling poorly a…

adjective

Nauseous; feeling sick.

Usage examples:

In the morning he was still pale and queasy

adjective

Feeling as if you are going to vomit

Usage examples:

I’m a little queasy this morning.

adjective

Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others.

Usage examples:

She took a sadistic pleasure in tormenting him

adjective

Suffering from sickness or nausea caused by the motion of a ship at sea.

Usage examples:

She felt appallingly seasick on any small craft

adjective

Vomiting or feeling that you want to vomit because of the movement of a vehicle, aircraft, ship, etc. when you are travelling

Usage examples:

I was so travel-sick i had to ask them to stop the bus.

adjective

Ill.

Usage examples:

He was admitted to hospital for tests after feeling unwell

adjective

Not well; ill

Usage examples:

I hear you've been unwell recently., if you feel unwell, tell the teacher.