Sickly
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English
Adjective
Sickly (comparative sicklier, superlative sickliest)
- Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.
- a sickly child
- Having the appearance of sickness or ill health; appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; pale.
- a sickly plant
- Weak; faint; suggesting unhappiness.
- a sickly smile
Related terms
Adverbs for Sickly
distressingly; unfortunately; bafflingly; always; strangely; inexplicably; wretchedly; unhappily; apparently; curiously.
Thesaurus
achromatic, achromic, ailing, anemic, ashen, ashy, bled white, bloodless, cachectic, cadaverous, chloranemic, cloying, colorless, cranky, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated, delicate, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, diseased, donsie, down, drained, drawn, dull, enervated, etiolated, exhausted, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, failing, faint, fallow, feeble, flat, frail, ghastly, gray, haggard, healthless, hueless, hypochromic, in poor health, indisposed, infirm, insalubrious, insipid, invalid, lackluster, languishing, leaden, livid, low, lurid, lusterless, mat, maudlin, mawkish, mealy, mean, moribund, morose, muddy, mushy, neutral, noisome, noxious, off-color, offish, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaking, peaky, pimping, poorly, puny, reduced, reduced in health, run-down, sallow, sick, sickish, tallow-faced, toneless, uncolored, unhealthful, unhealthy, unsound, valetudinarian, valetudinary, wan, washed-out, watery, waxen, weak, weakened, weakly, whey-faced, white, with low resistance
