Noun
- 1. sick, people
- usage: people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
Verb
- 1. vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up, excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
- usage: 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"
Adjective
- 1. ill (vs. well), sick, afflicted, stricken, aguish, ailing, indisposed, peaked(predicate), poorly(predicate), 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(predicate), stricken, laid up(predicate), milk-sick, nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish, palsied, paralytic, paralyzed, paraplegic, rickety, rachitic, scrofulous, sneezy, spastic, tubercular, tuberculous, unhealed, upset, unhealthy, unfit
- usage: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
- 2. nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish, ill (vs. well), sick
- usage: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
- 3. brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged, insane (vs. sane)
- usage: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
- 4. disgusted, fed up(predicate), sick(predicate), sick of(predicate), tired of(predicate), displeased (vs. pleased)
- usage: 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"
- 5. pale, pallid, wan, sick, weak (vs. strong)
- usage: (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"
- 6. sick, moved(predicate) (vs. unmoved), affected, stirred, touched
- usage: deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
- 7. ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick, alarming (vs. unalarming)
- usage: 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"
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