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Definition: Sickly |
SicklyAdjective1. Unhealthy looking. 2. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sickly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: SicklySynonyms: ailing (adj), indisposed (adj), peaked(p) (adj), poorly(p) (adj), sallow (adj), unwell (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced. drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting. |
Weakness | Languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; (disease); dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sickly |
| English words defined with "sickly": ailing ♦ catamenia ♦ etiolate ♦ flow ♦ indisposed ♦ menses, menstruation, Morbifical ♦ peaked, Peaking, Peakish, period, Pimping, poorly ♦ Qualmish ♦ sallowness, Sicklied, Sickliness ♦ Tallow-face, Tallow-faced ♦ unwell ♦ valetudinarian, Valetudinary ♦ wan, Weak ♦ Yaup. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sickly": Ague ♦ Bantam ♦ Death's Head on a Mopstick ♦ Funeral ♦ satire ♦ Twins. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sickly": malingerer. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Three sickly sweet doses of methadone a day instead of smack (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Stanley, remember how when we were little, I was such a sickly child and you never wanted to play with me (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) To pale, pale means sickly. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) When I was a kid, my father had this dog that started to get all weak and sickly. He takes it to the vet, he examines it and says a maggot must have laid eggs in the dog's butt (Addicted to Love; writing credit: Robert Gordon) He was very sickly until he started riding around on that bicycle (Breaking Away; writing credit: Steve Tesich) | |
Tongue Twisters | Strict strong stringy Stephen Stretch slickly snared six sickly silky snakes. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Syrian poster showing a mother with a healthy, breastfed baby, and a malnourished, sickly looking baby sitting on a can of instant milk]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Raven" by Terry Eaton Commentary: "Black and white of a sickly looking raven in silhouette." |
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 | Sniffling; cold; sick; sickly; under the weather. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The robe of speculative cobwebs, embroidered with flowers of rhetoric, steeped in the dew of sickly sentiment, this transcendental robe in which the German Socialists wrapped their sorry "eternal truths," all skin and bone, served to wonderfully increase the sale of their goods amongst such a public. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Enfettered progress is sickly, and it has these tragic epilepsies |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Their dull piety and the sickly smell of the cheap hairoil with which they had anointed their heads repelled him from the altar they prayed at. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham, Is this thy vow unto my sickly heart |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent. Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung In the dead language of a mummy's tongue, For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well -- Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell. Had it been such as consecrates the Bible Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel. Barney Stims |
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Jon Stewart | I am of the mindset, I mean, look, I remember when Khomeini died and they showed the funeral procession. And I come from a long tradition of sickly people who pass away. So I've been to my share of funerals. |
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| "Sickly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 76.09% of the time. "Sickly" is used about 230 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 76.09% | 175 | 23,506 |
| Adverb (general) | 23.91% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Total | 100.00% | 230 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sickly": be sickly ♦ grow sickly ♦ sickly sweet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sickly": sickly-looking, sickly-smelling, sickly-sweet. | |
Ending with "sickly": less-sickly. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sickly | 17 |
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| Language | Translations for "sickly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shëndetlig (cachectic, spindling, unhealthy, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakling, weakly), i pashëndet, i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) | |
Arabic | منحرف الصحة (ailing, indisposed, unwell), مغث (brackish, disgusting, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, queasy, sickening), متوعك (indisposed, out of health, poorly, seedy, shaky, sufferer, unwell), مريض (ailing, diseased, ill, inmate, invalid, sick, sick list, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), واهن (atonal, atonic, crazy, doddery, effete, enervate, feeble, flagging, impotent, infirm, invalidity, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lower, nerveless, powerless, prostrate, rusty, shrivelled, sluggish, spiritless, stunted, tender, weak, weakling, weakly, wimp), غير صحي (insalubrious, insanitary, insanity, sick, unhygienic, unsanitary), غث (lean, meager, meagre, pallid, prosy, scanty, thin), سقيم (below par, ill, poor, puny, rickety, sick, unwell, wan), شاحب (bloodless, colorless, colourless, greyish, haggard, insular, leaden, livid, mealy, pale, palish, pallid, paly, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sick, wan), بائس (afflicted, cheerless, deplorable, desolate, devil, disconsolate, distressed, forlorn, godforsaken, hapless, heel, helpless, lamentable, measly, miserable, paltry, pathetic, penurious, piteous, pitiful, poor, poverty stricken, ratty, sad, scruffy, seedy, sordid, squalid, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сладникав (mawkish, saccharine, sugary, sweetish, syrupy, treacly), хилав (effete, feeble, frail, puny, weakly), тъжен (bleak, cheerless, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, dull, dusky, elegiac, gloomy, heavy, joyless, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, mournful, pensive, plaintive, sad, sick, sorrowful, tristful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful), гаден (abominable, creepy, filthy, loathsome, nameless, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obscene, revolting, scarlet, slimy, sordid, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, unwholesome, vile, villainous, yukky), нездравословен (insalubrious, insanitary, noisome, noxious, unhealthy, unsanitary, unwholesome), болнав (ailing, cachectic, delicate, invalid, pimping, poorly, punk, unhealthy, unwell, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly), бледен (ashen, ashy, ashy-gray, doughy, faint, lambent, lymphatic, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous), придавам болнав вид на. (various references) | |
Chinese | 病弱. (various references) | |
Czech | stonavý (poorly, valetudinarian), nezdravý (damaging to one's health, insalubrious, unhealthy, unsound, unwell, unwholesome), neduživý (infirm, weak, weedy), mdlý (dull, faint, flat, languid, pale, sapless, sick, torpid, vapid, wan, watery), bledý (bloodless, ghastly, pale, pallid, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, wan). (various references) | |
Danish | skrumpne kaerner (shrivelled grain, shrunk grain, sickly grain). (various references) | |
Dutch | verschrompeld graan (shrivelled grain, shrunk grain, sickly grain). (various references) | |
Finnish | sairaalloinen (ailing, infirm), raihnainen (ailing, decrepit), kivulloinen (ailing). (various references) | |
French | souffrant, pâlir, pâle (sick), mièvre, malsain (sick), maladif (sick), malade (sick, sick person), chétif, écœurant (sickening). (various references) | |
German | krank (ailing, bad, crook, diseased, down, ill, invalid, invalidly, not well, poorly, sick, unsound, unwell), kränkliche. (various references) | |
Greek | νοσηρόσ (morbid, unsound), φιλάσθενοσ (frail, unhealthy, valetudinarian, valetudinary), φιλάσθενος, ασθενικόσ (feeble, weakly). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבחיל (nasty, nauseous, odious, queasy, revolting, sickening), חולני (ailing, morbid, sick, unhealthy, weakly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyenge (anaemic, anemic, crazy, decrepit, Dickey, dicky, dim, extenuate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, inferior, infirm, light, low, meagre, mild, nerveless, palsied, reedy, scrannel, semi-invalid, slack, slender, slight, small voice, soft, weak, weakly), beteges (bad, fragile, ill-conditioned, indisposed, infirm, morbid, pathological, seedy, weak, weakly, woozy), szentimentális (maudlin, namby-pamby, sentimental, sloppy), érzelgős (corny, gooey, gushy, lyrical, maudlin, mushy, namby-pamby, sentimental, sloppy, slushy, to slobber over sy, twee), émelyítő (cloying, fulsome, mawkish, nauseating, nauseous, queasy, slushy sentimentality). (various references) | |
Indonesian | uzur (feeble, weak), penggering. (various references) | |
Italian | stucchevole (nauseating, sickening), nauseabondo (nauseas, nauseating, queasy, sickening), malsano (diseased, ill, morbid, sick, unhealthy, unwholesome), malaticcio (ailing, poorly, unhealthy), giallastro (sallow, yellowish, yellowy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ひ弱い (be afraid of, be fearful, be nervous, be timid, relentlessly, retaining composure, saturated, stickily, to be scared, undaunted, unperturbed, weak, wet through), ひ弱 (delicate, weak), 多病 (delicate constitution). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たびょう (delicate constitution), ひよわい (weak), ひよわ (delicate, weak). (various references) | |
Korean | 병약한. (various references) | |
Manx | treih (abject, deplorable, doughy, drawn, feeble, forlorn, fragile, haggard, miserable, pale, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, regrettable, rueful, sallow, seedy, wan, wretched, wretched of thing), jiooldagh (bilious, dissident, nauseating, nauseous, negative, revolting, squeamish), doghanagh (diseased, disordered, ill, morbid, sick person). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icklysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem saúde, pálido (ashen, ashy, blank, chalky, colorless, colourless, linen, livid, lurid, mealy, off-color, off-colour, pale, pallid, pasty, peaked, perse, sallow, tallowy, wan, washed-out, white-headed), fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, failing, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk-and-water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, scrannel, shaky, slight, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy-washy), enfermo (diseased, ill-founded, infirm, invalid, sick, unhealthy, weak-kneed, weakly), doentio (crank, diseased, green, insalubrious, insanitary, morbid, reckling, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome, wan, weak, weakly, wishy-washy), doente (ailing, broken, diseased, ecstatic, ill, ill-founded, invalid, patient, sick, sick person, unhealthy, unsound, weak-kneed), débil (broken, enervate, failing, faint, fragile, frail, languid, light, pony, puny, reckling, reedy, remote, scrannel, shaky, spiritless, weak, weakly), adoentado (cranky, off-color, off-colour, poorly, sick, unhealthy, unwell, washed-out). (various references) | |
Romanian | stins (departed, dim, extinct, extinguished, faded, faint, ghastly, out, withered), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), pierit (downcast, thin), palid (ashen, ashy, colorless, colourless, doughy, etiolated, female, Gray, green, grey, haggard, lightish, lunar, lurid, pale, pallid, paly, wan, washed out, white), nesãnãtos (insalubrious, insanitary, unwholesome), maladiv (ailing, tender, unhealthy), insalubru (insalubrious, insanitary, unhealthy, unwholesome), greţos (disgusting, gross, nauseous, queasy, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury), debil (delicate, feeble, frail, lymphatic, weakly), bolnãvior, bolnãvicios (cranky, delicate, dicky, diseased, frail, invalid, pasty, seedy, unhealthy, valetudinarian, weakly, weedy), becisnic (delicate, frail, impotent, infirm, weakly). (various references) | |
Russian | тошнотворный (nauseous, queasy, sickish), болезненный (achy, afflictive, ailing, cachectic, morbid, painful, peccant, pimping, squeamish, unhealthy, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly), болезненно болезненный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, feeble, flabby, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, punk, remote, short, slim, tenuous, thin, trick, undernourished, unlikely, washy, weak), nezdrav (insanitary, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome), bolesno (bad, ill), bolešljivo, bolešljiv (pimping, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly). (various references) | |
Spanish | enfermizo (delicate, infirm, sick, sickish, unhealthy, weakling). (various references) | |
Swedish | sjukligt, sjuklig (ailing, diseased, distempered, infirm, invalid, morbid, pathological, unhealthy, unsound, valetudinarian, valetudinary, wan), kväljande (mawkish, nauseating, queasily, queasy, sickening), äklig, äckligt (disgusting). (various references) | |
Thai | เจ็บป่วยบ่อย, ซึ่งไม่น่ามอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | soluk (ashy, breath, breathing, cadaverous, colorless, colourless, dull, exhalation, faded, faint, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, sick, wan, washy, watery), sağlıksız (dodgy, ill, insalubrious, insanitary, shaky, unhealthy, unsanitary, unsound, unwholesome), mide bulandırıcı (fulsome, nauseous, noisome, qualmish, queasy, sick, sickening), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), iç bayıltıcı, hastalıklı (Dickey, dicky, diseased, infirm, morbid, unwholesome, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly), hastalık yapan, hastalık derecesinde, hastaca, cılız (fatless, feeble, of poor physique, puny, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, spindling, spindly, undersized, weak). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gцяduk (puny). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хворий (aching, ailing, case, dicky, diseased, ill, invalid, pasty, poorly, sick, sickish, sore, stricken), шкідливий (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cankerous, damnific, deleterious, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insanitary, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, unhealthy, wrongful), нудотний (emetic, luscious, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, qualmish, queasy, routine, sickish, treacly), нездоровий (ailing, decadent, feverish, indisposed, insalubrious, noisome, noxious, off color, off colour, unfit, unsound, unwell, unwholesome, useless). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xanh xao độc; tanh, làm buồn nôn uỷ mị, hay ốm, có vẻ ốm yếu, ẻo lả (effeminate, lackadaisical, languorous, soft), đau yếu; gầy yếu xanh. (various references) | |
Welsh | nychlyd (feeble), goachul (lean, poorly, puny), afiachus (unwholesome). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Dia touto en umin polloi asqeneiV kai arrwstoi kai koimwntai ikanoi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ideo inter vos multi infirmes et inbecilles et dormiunt multi |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Therfor among you many ben sijke and feble, and manye slepen. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For this cause many are weake and sicke amoge you and many slepe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead. |
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| Language | 1 Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 30 |
| Cebuano | Mao kana ang hinungdan ngano nga daghan kaninyo mga maluya ug mga masakiton, ug ang uban nangamatay. |
| Croatian | Zato su meðu vama mnogi nejaki i nemoæni, i spavaju mnogi. |
| Danish | Derfor ere mange skrøbelige og sygelige iblandt eder, og en Del sover hen. |
| Dutch | Daarom zijn onder u vele zwakken en kranken, en velen slapen. |
| Finnish | Sentähden onkin teidän joukossanne paljon heikkoja ja sairaita, ja moni on nukkunut pois. |
| French | C`est pour cela qu`il y a parmi vous beaucoup d`infirmes et de malades, et qu`un grand nombre sont morts. |
| German | Darum sind auch viele Schwache und Kranke unter euch, und ein gut Teil schlafen. |
| Haitian Creole | Se sak fè gen anpil moun malad konsa nan mitan nou, anpil moun k'ap soufri feblès, san konte sa ki mouri deja. |
| Hungarian | Ezért van ti köztetek sok erõtlen és beteg, és alusznak sokan. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Itulah sebabnya banyak dari antara kalian yang sakit dan lemah, dan ada juga yang mati. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka itulah sebabnya banyak di antara kamu yang lemah dan sakit, dan bukan sedikit yang mati. |
| Italian | E' per questo che tra voi ci sono molti ammalati e infermi, e un buon numero sono morti. |
| Latvian | Tâdçï starp jums ir daudz neveselu un vâju, un daudzi aizmiguði. |
| Maori | No konei hoki he tokomaha i roto i a koutou e ngoikore ana, e mate ana, he tokomaha ano kua moe. |
| Norwegian | Derfor er det mange skrøpelige og syke iblandt eder, og mange sovner inn. |
| Rumanian | Din pricina aceasta sknt kntre voi mulyi neputinciowi wi bolnavi, wi nu puyini dorm. |
| Russian | пФФПЗП НОПЗЙЕ ЙЪ ЧБУ ОЕНПЭОЩ Й ВПМШОЩ Й ОЕНБМП ХНЙТБЕФ. |
| Shuar | Atumsha tura asarum jaarme tura pimpiruitrume. Chikichcha Jákaru ainiawai. |
| Spanish | Por eso hay entre vosotros muchos enfermos y debilitados, y muchos duermen. |
| Swahili | Ndiyo maana wengi kati yenu ni dhaifu na wagonjwa, na wengine kadhaa wamekufa. |
| Swedish | Därför finnas ock bland eder många som äro svaga och sjuka, och ganska många äro avsomnade. |
| Uma | Apa' ngkai toe-die pai' alaa-na wori' -koi to peda' ba lente wuku-nie, pai' ria mpu'u-mi doo-ni to mate. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sickly": sicklying. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sickly": brainsickly. (additional references) | |
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"Sickly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seccy, Sexkylie, Sicelo, sicklied, sicky, sicl, sicly, stickly, sucky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sickly" (pronounced si"klē) |
| 4 | -i" k l ē | prickly, quickly, slickly, thickly. |
| 3 | -k l ē | academically, acoustically, aerobically, aerodynamically, aesthetically, alchemically, algebraically, alphabetically, analytically, anatomically, angelically, apologetically, artistically, astronomically, athletically, authentically, automatically, basically, biologically, biweekly, blankly, briskly, brusquely, categorically, characteristically, chemically, chronologically, classically, cosmetically, darkly, democratically, demographically, diplomatically, dogmatically, domestically, dramatically, drastically, ecologically, economically, ecstatically, emphatically, energetically, enthusiastically, erratically, ethnically, euphemistically, fantastically, forensically, frankly, generically, genetically, geometrically, geopolitically, graphically, grotesquely, heroically, hypothetically, hysterically, ideologically, idiotically, ironically, likely, linguistically, logically, logistically, lyrically, mechanically, medically, meekly, metaphorically, microscopically, musically, newsweekly, numerically, obliquely, optically, organically, paradoxically, pathologically, phonetically, physiologically, poetically, practically, prolifically, psychologically, publically, publicly, radically, realistically, rhetorically, rhythmically, sarcastically, sleekly, sparkly, specifically, sporadically, starkly, stoically, strategically, stylistically, symmetrically, synthetically, systematically, systemically, terrifically, thematically, theologically, tragically, typically, uncharacteristically, undiplomatically, uniquely, unlikely, unrealistically, vertically, volcanically, weakly, weekly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-k-l-s-y" | |
-1 letter: licks, silky, slick. | |
-2 letters: icky, ilks, lick, sick, silk, syli. | |
-3 letters: cis, ick, icy, ilk, lis, sic, ski, sky, sly. | |
-4 letters: is, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-k-l-s-y" | |
+1 letter: kylices, slickly. | |
+2 letters: sickerly, sicklily, stickily, stockily. | |
+3 letters: plasticky, puckishly, sickishly, sicklying, sketchily. | |
+4 letters: billycocks, kilocycles, shockingly, shylocking, ticklishly, trickishly. | |
+5 letters: brainsickly, bricklayers, flyspecking, lickerishly, sickeningly, skeptically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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