sick
adjective
[ sɪk ]
• affected by physical or mental illness.
• "nursing very sick children"
Similar:
ill,
unwell,
poorly,
ailing,
indisposed,
laid up,
bad,
out of sorts,
not oneself,
off,
off colour,
under the weather,
on the sick list,
crook,
crappy,
• feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit.
• "he was starting to feel sick"
Similar:
nauseous,
nauseated,
queasy,
bilious,
sick to one's stomach,
green,
green around the gills,
seasick,
carsick,
airsick,
travel-sick,
suffering from motion sickness,
about to throw up,
barfy,
qualmish,
• intensely annoyed with or bored by (someone or something) as a result of having had too much of them.
• "I'm absolutely sick of your moods"
Similar:
fed up with,
bored with/by,
tired of,
weary of,
jaded with/by,
surfeited with/by,
satiated with,
glutted with/by,
have had enough of,
have had a basinful of,
have had it up to here with,
have had something up to here,
• (especially of humour) having something unpleasant such as death or misfortune as its subject and dealing with it in an offensive way.
• "this was someone's idea of a sick joke"
Opposite:
in good taste,
• excellent.
sick
noun
• vomit.
• "she was busy wiping sick from the carpet"
sick
verb
• bring something up by vomiting.
• "he was passing blood and sicking it up"
Origin:
Old English sēoc ‘affected by illness’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ziek and German siech .
sick
verb
• set a dog on.
• "the plan was to surprise the heck out of the grizzly by sicking the dog on him"
Origin:
mid 19th century: dialect variant of seek.
be sick
• be ill.
• vomit.
• "the baby was sick all over my silk shirt"
Similar:
vomit,
throw up,
retch,
cough up,
bring up,
regurgitate,
heave,
gag,
get sick,
chunder,
chuck up,
hurl,
spew,
do the technicolor yawn,
keck,
ralph,
honk,
sick up,
boke,
spit up,
barf,
upchuck,
toss one's cookies,
blow chunks,
