sick
people who are sick (Freq. 1)
- they devote their lives to caring for the sick
• Hypernyms:
people
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- After drinking too much, the students vomited
- He purged continuously
- The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
• Syn:
vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, cat,
be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf,
barf, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk,
regurgitate, throw up
• Ant:
keep down (for: vomit)
• Derivationally related forms:
regurgitation (for: regurgitate), spewer (for: spew), puke (for: puke), puking (for: puke), retch (for: retch), disgorgement (for: disgorge), vomit (for: vomit), vomiter (for: vomit), vomiting (for: vomit)
• Hypernyms:
excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something (for: throw up)
- Somebody ----s something (for: regurgitate)
- Somebody ----s something (for: retch)
- Somebody ----s something (for: vomit up)
1. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function (Freq. 8)
- ill from the monotony of his suffering
• Syn:
ill
• Ant:
well (for: ill)
• Similar to:
afflicted, stricken, aguish, ailing, indisposed,
peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy,
airsick, air sick, carsick, seasick, autistic, bedfast,
bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed, bilious, liverish, livery,
bronchitic, consumptive, convalescent, recovering, delirious, hallucinating,
diabetic, dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous, dyspeptic,
faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded, feverish,
feverous, funny, gouty, green, laid low, laid up,
milk-sick, nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish, palsied,
paralytic, paralyzed, paraplegic, rickety, rachitic, scrofulous,
sneezy, spastic, tubercular, tuberculous, unhealed, upset
• See Also:
unhealthy, unfit
• Derivationally related forms:
sickness, illness (for: ill)
2. feeling nausea;
feeling about to vomit (Freq. 7)
• Syn:
nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish
• Similar to:
ill
• Derivationally related forms:
sickness, queasiness (for: queasy), nausea (for: nauseous)
3. affected with madness or insanity (Freq. 1)
- a man who had gone mad
• Syn:
brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad,
unbalanced, unhinged
• Similar to:
insane
• Derivationally related forms:
madness (for: mad), dementedness (for: demented), craze (for: crazy), craziness (for: crazy)
4. having a strong distaste from surfeit (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Syn:
disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of
• Similar to:
displeased
5. 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
• Syn:
ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre
• Similar to:
alarming
• Derivationally related forms:
gruesomeness (for: gruesome), grimness (for: grim), ghastliness (for: ghastly)
6. (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
• Syn:
pale, pallid, wan
• Similar to:
weak
• Derivationally related forms:
paleness (for: pale)
7. deeply affected by a strong feeling
- sat completely still, sick with envy
- she was sick with longing
• Similar to:
moved, affected, stirred, touched
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