Definition of sicks Sicks

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What does sicks mean?

Part of speech

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  • sicks, verb, present, 3rd person singular of sick (infinitive).
  • sicks, noun, plural of sick.

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: sicks

sick - people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
  people members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"

Adjective

sick, sicker, sickest

sick - deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
sick - affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
  ill
  well wise or advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be well to start early"
  unhealthy not conducive to good health; "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate"
  unfit not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service"
  afflicted, stricken mentally or physically unfit
  aguish affected by ague
  ailing, poorly, under the weather, unwell, indisposed, peaked, sickly, seedy 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"
  air sick, airsick, carsick, seasick experiencing motion sickness
  autistic characteristic of or affected with autism; "autistic behavior"; "autistic children"
  bedfast, bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed confined to bed (by illness)
  livery, liverish, bilious suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
  bronchitic suffering from or prone to bronchitis
  consumptive tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires"
  convalescent, recovering returning to health after illness or debility; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed"
  hallucinating, delirious marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"
  diabetic suffering from diabetes
  vertiginous, woozy, dizzy, giddy having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"
  dyspeptic suffering from dyspepsia
  swooning, light-headed, lightheaded, faint, light lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady"
  feverous, feverish marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace"
  funny experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest"
  gouty suffering from gout
  green of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint"
  laid low, stricken put out of action (by illness)
  laid up ill and usually confined; "laid up with a bad cold"
  milk-sick affected with or related to milk sickness
  nauseated, sickish, nauseous, queasy, sick feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
  palsied affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor; "palsied hands"
  paralyzed, paralytic affected with paralysis
  paraplegic suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord
  rachitic, rickety inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"
  scrofulous having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula; "our canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore"- Farley Mowat
  sneezy inclined to sneeze
  spastic suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child"
  tuberculous, tubercular constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus; "a tubercular child"; "tuberculous patients"; "tubercular meningitis"
  unhealed not healed; "an unhealed wound"
sick - affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
  brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged
  insane afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter"
sick - feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
  nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish
  ill, sick presaging ill fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
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"
  ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre
  alarming frightening because of an awareness of danger
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"
  pale, pallid, wan
  weak deficient in intelligence or mental power; "a weak mind"
sick - 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"
  disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of
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Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • sick (Noun)
    Sick people in general as a group.
  • sick (Noun)
    vomit.
  • sick (Verb)
    To fall sick; to sicken.
  • sick (Adjective)
    In poor health.
  • sick (Adjective)
    Mentally unstable, disturbed.
  • sick (Adjective)
    In bad taste.
  • sick (Adjective)
    Having an urge to vomit.
  • sick (Adjective)
    Very good, excellent, awesome.
  • sick (Adjective)
    In poor condition.
  • sick (Adjective)
    agriculture failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
  • sick (Adjective)
    To be tired with or annoyed of something.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • sick (superl.)
    Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
  • sick (superl.)
    Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
  • sick (superl.)
    Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
  • sick (superl.)
    Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
  • sick (n.)
    Sickness.
  • sick (v. i.)
    To fall sick; to sicken.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • sick
    Whose health is altered.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • sick
    sik, adj. affected with disease: ill: inclined to vomit: disgusted: infirm: disordered: pining: depressed: indicating sickness: poor in quality: out of repair.—v.i. (Shak.) to grow sick.—ns. Sick′-bay, -berth, a compartment on a troop-ship, &c., for sick and wounded; Sick′-bed, a bed on which a person lies sick.—adj. Sick′-brained, mentally deranged.—v.t. Sick′en, to make sick: to disgust: to make weary of anything.—v.i. to become sick: to be disgusted: to become disgusting or tedious: to become weakened.—n. Sick′ener, any cause of disgust.—adj. Sick′ening, causing sickness or disgust, loathsome.—n. a scum which forms on the surface of mercury from grease, sulphides, arsenides, &c.—adv. Sick′eningly.—adj. Sick′-fall′en (Shak.), struck down with sickness.—ns. Sick′-flag, a yellow flag indicating disease on board a ship; Sick′-head′ache, headache accompanied with nausea.—adj. Sick′ish, somewhat sick.—adv. Sick′ishly.—ns. Sick′ishness; Sick′-leave, leave of absence from duty owing to sickness.—adj. Sick′lied (Shak.), tainted with the hue of sickness or disease.—adv. Sick′lily, in a sickly manner.—ns. Sick′liness, the state of being sickly, or of appearing so; Sick′-list, a list containing the names of the sick.—adjs. Sick′-listed, entered on the sick-list; Sick′ly, inclined to sickness: unhealthy: somewhat sick: weak: languid: producing disease: mawkish: feeble, mentally weak.—adv. in a sick manner: feebly.—v.t. (obs.) to make sickly or sickly-looking.—ns. Sick′ness, state of being sick, disease: disorder of the stomach: an enfeebled state of anything; Sick′-report′, a return regularly made of the state of the sick; Sick′-room, a room to which a person is confined by sickness.—adj. Sick′-thought′ed (Shak.), love-sick. [A.S. seóc; Ger. siech, Dut. ziek.]
  • sick
    sik, v.t. to set upon, chase: to incite to attack. [A variant of seek.]

Part of speech

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  • sick, verb, present, 1st person singular of sick (infinitive).
  • sick, verb (infinitive).
  • sick, noun, singular of sicks.
  • sick, adjective.

Pronunciation

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