Monday, February 7, 2011

sICK. (49/265)

Noun

  • S: (n) sick (people who are sick) "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"

Verb

Adjective

  • S: (adj) ill, sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function) "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
  • S: (adj) nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish (feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit)
  • S: (adj) brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged (affected with madness or insanity) "a man who had gone mad"
  • S: (adj) disgusted, fed up, sick, sick of, tired of (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"
  • S: (adj) pale, pallid, wan, sick ((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"
  • S: (adj) sick (deeply affected by a strong feeling) "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
  • S: (adj) ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick (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"

Definition of 'sick' from Princeton's WordNet

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