Sick

Definition: Sick

Sick

Adjective

1. Not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the monotony of his suffering".

2. Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit.

3. Affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad".

4. 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".

Noun

1. People who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick".

Verb

1. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Sick \Sick\, adjective. [Comparative Sicker; superlative Sickest.]. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sick

Dejection

Disconsolate; unconsolable, inconsolable; forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole, sick at heart; soul sick, heart sick; au desespoir; in despair; lost.

Disease

Adjective: diseased; ailing; Verb: ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather; valetudinary.

Dislike

Cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick, render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble, disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the grain, go against the stomach; stick in the throat; make one's blood run cold; (give pain); pall.

Adjective: disliking; Verb: averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse; shy of, sick of, out of conceit with; disinclined; heartsick, dogsick; queasy.

Ejection

Vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god.

Pain

Sicken, disgust, revolt, nauseate, disenchant, repel, offend, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the stomach, turn the stomach; make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on the ear; stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard; rankle, gnaw, corrode, horrify, appal, appall, freeze the blood; make the flesh creep, make the hair stand on end; make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold; make one shudder.

Rite

Matrimony; burial; visitation of the sick.

Satiety

Adjective: satiated; Verb: overgorged; blase, used up, sick of, heartsick.

Weariness

Weary, tired; Verb: drowsy; (sleepy); uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of.

Never hear the last of; be tired of, be sick of, be tired with; Adjective: yawn; die with ennui.

Crosswords: Sick

Manx (ploughshares ).

How sick is she (Benny & Joon; writing credit: Barry Berman)

The sick ones don't scare me, at least they're committed (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

You're sick. (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow)

The Sick Boy method (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

They make me sick (You Make Me Sick; performing artist: Pink)

When I wuz sick as a little kid (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

Droppin' game so sick I got 'em doin' tha most (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K)

I'm dying for some action I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write (DANCING IN THE DARK; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Nearly made me sick to the point of throwing up (What's Your Flava?; performing artist: Craig David)

A weird thing about humans is we work till we're sick to get a fortune, then pay a fortune to get well again. (references; author: unknown)

Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers. (references; author: unknown)

Sick thickets thwarted seven thin sinners from passing through. (references; author: unknown)

Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings. (references; author: unknown)

The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick. (references; author: unknown)

Sick Transit (1966)

Six Figures Getting Sick (1966)

Sick Sidney Sick (1958)

He Can't Make It Sick (1943)

Love Sick (1925)

You Make Me Sick (performing artist: Pink)

My Sick Mind (performing artist: The Roches)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Sick of Shadows (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sick & Twisted (reference)

• Sick Of It All : The Story So Far (reference)

• The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper - Rats/Hat Sick (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sick Society (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Polar bear - Ursus maritimus - hunting near large group of walrus. Polar bear normally won't attack walrus unless walrus is sick or very young. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

The United States Marine Hospital at Chelsea. The building was made of stone and built in 1827. Patients were sick and disabled seamen. Although run by the revenue collector of Boston and Charlestown, a physician and surgeon were appointed by the President of the United States. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines.

St. John's Hospital ship providing fresh air to the sick poor. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Boats bringing sick and wounded to Missouri]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Holds "sick call" for children of Tam Toa village, Republic of Vietnam, November 1967. Paige is a member of Team Six of the U.S. Naval Support Activity, Da Nang. Photographed by JO1 Bob Young. Credit: NAVY.

Coming alongside USS Pittsburgh (CA-4) in mid-ocean to send a sick man on board for treatment, during the mid-1920s. Photographed by Ray, USS Pittsburgh. Credit: NAVY.

The sick man hears burglars. Credit: Library of Congress.

The sick lion. Credit: Library of Congress.

You're a very sick man, I'm the only one that can help you. Credit: Library of Congress.

President Lyndon Johnson at the bedside of the sick public as Goldwater rushes in with "Equal time demand" bag. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

As damage caused to the peoples of the Allied and Associated Powers, all pensions and compensation in the nature of pensions to naval and military victims of war (including members of the air force), whether mutilated, wounded, sick or invalided, and to the dependents of such victims, the amount due to the Allied and Associated Governments being calculated for each of them as being the capitalised cost of such pensions and compensation at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty on the basis of the scales in force in France at such date. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Her mind was quite sick of Mr. Elton and the Martins

Cosette was not sick.

He wonders if perhaps Sick Boy's success with women is based on his ability to raise one eyebrow

His very brain was sick and powerless

Uncle John looked pale and sick.

To remedy which there was a sort of people bred up among us, in the profession or pretense of curing the sick.

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Feel sick to your stomach. (references)

Do not try to nurse sick animals to health. (references)

Others may focus special attention on the sick child. (references)

Business

Retail pharmacies are reimbursed regularly by Sick Funds. (references)

Sick Funds will also play a greater role in reimbursement decisions. (references)

Prescriptions are currently monitored by Sick Funds inspectors through retail pharmacies. (references)

Children

Korea

In the fall of 1998, the NGO's Doctors Without Borders (DWB) and Doctors of the World closed their offices in the country because the Government reportedly denied them access to a large population of sick and malnourished children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Switzerland

Some 33,000 Kosovars accepted this offer, which ended in May 2000. The Federal Government granted a delay in departure in 1,962 cases that involved individual hardship (including families with children in school, members of ethnic minorities, the elderly, the sick, single mothers, and pregnant women). (references)

Economic History

Denmark

Denmark has well functioning unemployment insurance and sick pay schemes. (references)

Human Rights

Nepal

The authorities are more likely to transfer sick prisoners to hospitals than they were in the past. (references)

Togo

Sick prisoners reportedly have to pay $2 (1,500 CFA francs) to guards before being allowed to visit the infirmary. (references)

Nicaragua

The police officials delivered Baltodano to his sister, Azucena Castro Baltodano, claiming that he inexplicably had become sick while in custody. (references)

Political Economy

DENMARK

The government pays most sick leave and unemployment insurance costs. (references)

DENMARK

A general unemployment insurance system in the Faroe Islands has been in force since 1992. Sick pay and maternity pay, as in Denmark, fall under the social security system. (references)

PAKISTAN

Recently a Corporate and Industrial Restructuring Corporation has been established to take over the bad loans of the banking sector and to revive sick industries, an effort aimed at improving state-owned bank balance sheets and preparing them for privatization. (references)

Women

Poland

Both men and women have the right to claim child sick care. (references)

Italy

A March 2000 law on parental leave grants mothers and fathers an equal right to take leave when a child is sick. (references)

Worker Rights

Kenya

There also are provisions for 21 days of annual leave and sick leave. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Sick

Expressions using "sick": anointing of the sick ♦ be on sick leave ♦ be on sick list ♦ be on the sick list ♦ be sick ♦ be sick and tired ♦ be sick and tired of ♦ be sick at heart ♦ be sick of ♦ be sick of doing smth. ♦ be sick of it ♦ be sick of smth. ♦ be sick to death ♦ be taken sick ♦ brain sick ♦ Euthyroid Sick Syndromes ♦ fall sick ♦ feel sick ♦ fevered sick ♦ get sick ♦ go sick ♦ got sick ♦ grow sick of ♦ heart sick ♦ i am sick of it! ♦ i feel sick ♦ laugh oneself sick ♦ lay sick of a fever ♦ love sick ♦ make feel sick ♦ make sick ♦ on sick leave ♦ paid sick leave ♦ play sick ♦ pretend to be sick ♦ report sick ♦ request sick leave ♦ school for the chronically sick ♦ seriously sick ♦ sick and tired ♦ sick and tired of ♦ sick at heart ♦ sick bay ♦ sick bed ♦ sick benefit ♦ sick berth ♦ sick book ♦ Sick Building Syndrome ♦ sick call ♦ sick certificate ♦ sick headache ♦ sick him! ♦ sick humor ♦ sick humour ♦ sick insurance ♦ sick into death ♦ sick joke ♦ sick leave ♦ sick list ♦ sick man ♦ sick note ♦ sick nurse ♦ sick nursing ♦ sick of ♦ sick of doing smth. ♦ sick of it ♦ sick parade ♦ sick pay ♦ sick person ♦ sick report ♦ Sick Role ♦ sick room ♦ sick sinus syndrome ♦ sick up ♦ statutory sick pay ♦ take sick ♦ the sick ♦ the sick and the well ♦ the sick and the wounded ♦ unpaid day of sick leave ♦ very sick ♦ visitation of the sick. Additional references.

Beginning with "sick": sick-abed, sick-a-bed, sick-absence, sick-bags, sick-bay, sick-bed, sick-bedside, Sick-brained, sick-flag, sick-leave, sick-leave, sick-list, sick-looking, sick-making, sick-nurse, sick-out, sick-room, sick-rooms, sick-to-the-gut, sick-to-your, sick-visiting, sick-ward.

Ending with "sick": air-sick, be air-sick, brain-sick, car-sick, cat-sick, crop-sick, dog-sick, Fancy-sick, Guilt-sick, heart-sick, home-sick, inflation-sick, Iron-sick, Love-sick, non-sick, pig-sick, sea-sick, sin-sick, soul-sick, travel-sick, Turn-sick, water-sick.

Containing "sick": aren't-you-sick-of-him.

Afrikaans

siek (ill, unwell). (various references)

Albanian

që i vjen për të vjellë (qualmish), me të përziera, i velët (cloyed, sated, satiated, surfeited), i sëmurë (ailing, bad, case, compulsive, diseased, down, ill, invalid, morbid, noisome, pathological, patient, seedy, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), i lodhur (all in, aweary, bored, disgusted, fatigued, flagging, forworn, jaded, languorous, rundown, tired, used up, way-worn, weary, worn out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغثي, ‏متقزز (disgusted, revolted), ‏متخم حتى السأم, ‏معتل (ailing, invalid, unhealthy), ‏مصاب (casualty, scorbutic), ‏مريض (ailing, diseased, ill, inmate, invalid, sick list, sickly, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), ‏مرضي (fulfilling, invalid, morbid, pathological), ‏غير صحي (insalubrious, insanitary, insanity, sickly, unhygienic, unsanitary), ‏سقيم (below par, ill, poor, puny, rickety, sickly, unwell, wan), ‏عليل (below par, bland, ill, queer), ‏شاحب (bloodless, colorless, colourless, greyish, haggard, insular, leaden, livid, mealy, pale, palish, pallid, paly, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sickly, wan), ‏به علة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

нуждаещ се от ремонт, извратен (crooked, depraved, distorted, kinky, perverse, perverted), изтощен (all in, bushed, down and out, effete, emaciated, enervate, exhausted, gaunt, jaded, limp, perished, played out, prostrate, run down, screwy, shagged out, shot, spent, used up, weary, whacked), перверзен (perverse), болезнен (afflictive, diseased, morbid, painful, peccant, sore, torturous, unsound, wicked), болен (ailing, bad, diseased, ill, invalid, patient, punk, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), на когото му се повръща, дръж (halloo, hoicks, sic, yoicks), нещастен (abject, hapless, ill fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, lack-all, lorn, poor, unblessed, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woeful, wretched), съвсем изостанал, отвратен (disgusted), тъжен (bleak, cheerless, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, dull, dusky, elegiac, gloomy, heavy, joyless, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, mournful, pensive, plaintive, sad, sickly, sorrowful, tristful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful), тъгуващ, разочарован (disappointed, frustrated), ядосан (angry, grumpy, mad, pissed off, shirty, snotty, teed off, warm, wrathful), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), на когото му се гади. (various references)

Catalan

malalt (ill, unwell). (various references)

Chinese 

病 (ailment, defect, disease, fall ill, illness, sickness). (various references)

Czech

sytý (deep, filling, fruity, vivid), nemocný (bad, diseased, ill, invalid, sick man, weak), morbidní (ghoulish, morbid), mdlý (dull, faint, flat, languid, pale, sapless, sickly, torpid, vapid, wan, watery), churavý (ailing, ill, indisposed, poorly, valetudinary). (various references)

Danish

syg (ill, unwell). (various references)

Dutch

ziek (ill, unwell), naar (about, according as, according to, along, as, bleak, by, dismal, dreary, for, ghastly, grisly, horrible, ill, long for, nasty, to, toward, towards, untranslated, unwell, yearn). (various references)

Esperanto

malsana (ill). (various references)

Faeroese

sjúkur (ill, unwell). (various references)

Farsi 

مریض شدن , مریض (Morbid, Patient), ناتندرست (Unhealthy), ناساز, ناخوش (Ill, Morbid, Unhealthy, Unsound, Unwell), علامت چاپی بمعنی عمداچنین نوشته شده (Sic), جستجوکردن (Attempt, Comb, Fish, Grub, Look, Mouse, Quest, Ransack, Scour, Search, Seek), بیمار (Bedridden, Ill, Patient, Unhealthy), برانگیختن (Abet, Act, Actuate, Arouse, Evince, Exacerbate, Exasperate, Excite, Heat, Impulse, Infuse, Instigate, Irritate, Nettle, Prod, Prompt, Provoke, Roust, Whet). (various references)

Finnish

sairas (diseased, ill, indisposed, morbid, patholigical, patient, sick person, unwell), kipeä (ill, sore). (various references)

French

malade (sick person, sickly), malsain (sickly). (various references)

German

krank (ailing, bad, crook, diseased, down, ill, invalid, invalidly, not well, poorly, sickly, unsound, unwell). (various references)

Greek 

ημικρανία (megrim, migraine, sick headache), άρρωστοσ (ill, patient), άρρωστος (ghastly, ill), ασθενήσ (ailing, feckless, ill, infirm, patient, piping, pithless, unwell). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתגעגע (nostalgic), חולה (ill, infirm, inmate, patient, unfit, unwell), חולני (ailing, morbid, sickly, unhealthy, weakly), חש בחילה, כואב (aching, painful, sore), דוי (illness, sad, sickness, sorrow, sorrowful), דוה (sad, wretched). (various references)

Hungarian

beteg (a patient, ailing, bad, be ill, be poorly, crook, dicky, diseased, ill, invalid, patient, to be ill, to be out of health, to be under the weather, to feel crummy, to feel ill, unsound, unwell). (various references)

Icelandic

sjúkur (ill, unwell), veikur (faint, ill, light, unwell, weak). (various references)

Indonesian

sakit (ache, ail, ailment, diseased, ill, painful), lara (ill, painful), gerah (feverish, hot, stifling hot sensation, stiflingly hot, sultry). (various references)

Irish

tinn, breoite (ill). (various references)

Italian

malato (bad, diseased, ill, morbid, sick person, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

病体 (poor health, sick body), み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, nausea, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire), エール大学 (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aerosol, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air compressor, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air force, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pocket, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, airbrush, Airbus, airline, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, airway, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University), 傷病兵 (sick and wounded soldiers), 傷病捕虜 (sick and wounded prisoners), 嫌気が差す (to be sick of, to be tired of), 床に就く (to be laid up, to be sick in bed, to go to bed), 加養 (caring for the sick, taking care of oneself), 寝込み (asleep, sick in bed), 病友 (fellow patient, sick friend), 飽き飽き (bored, sick of), 病気だと見える (to seem to be sick), 病人 (patient, sick person), 病人　 (patient, sick person), 病躯 (sick body, sickly constitution), 看取る (to care for the sick), 行路病者 (person fallen sick by the wayside), 見舞い客 (a visitor to a sick or distressed person), 厭き厭き (bored, sick of). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

びょうく (pain of sickness, sick body, sickly constitution), みとる (to care for the sick, to perceive, to understand), みまいきゃく (a visitor to a sick or distressed person), エアシック (air sick), むかつく (to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick), あきあき (bored, sick of), こうろびょうしゃ (person fallen sick by the wayside), とこにつく (to be laid up, to be sick in bed, to go to bed), かよう (available, ballad, caring for the sick, comely face, floral leaf, in such a manner, like this, lotus leaf, lower leaves, solubilizing, soluble, song, taking care of oneself, to attend, to commute, to go back and forth, to ply between, Tuesday), ねこみ (asleep, sick in bed), びょうゆう (fellow patient, sick friend), びょうにん (patient, sick person), びょうきだとみえる (to seem to be sick), びょうたい (a patient's condition, poor health, sick body), しょうびょうへい (sick and wounded soldiers), しょうびょうほりょ (sick and wounded prisoners), いやけがさす (to be sick of, to be tired of). (various references)

Korean 

아픈 (ill, sore). (various references)

Lombard

malaa (ill, unwell). (various references)

Manx

chingey, asslayntagh (bad health, diseased, infirm, invalid, sick person). (various references)