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Synonyms for sickly
ˈsɪk lisick·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
sallow, sicklyadjective
unhealthy looking
Synonyms:
indisposed, sallow, peaked(p), under the weather, unwell, ailing, poorly(p), seedyailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedyadjective
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"
Editors Contribution
worm eaten
Submitted by Mollhyman on November 3, 2021
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4045 | ing | |
#4358 | sick | |
#4981 | weak | |
#11658 | delicate | |
#23834 | unhealthy | |
#25985 | tainted | |
#28096 | morbid | |
#31313 | feeble | |
#33192 | diseased | |
#34500 | disordered | |
#34944 | ailing | |
#54580 | sickly | |
#54808 | seedy | |
#62469 | unwell | |
#77197 | droop | |
#89348 | pining | |
#118879 | sallow | |
#155827 | vitiated | |
#173035 | indisposed |
How to use sickly in a sentence?
I've never been a sickly person, but I did catch strep throat about three years ago, i've never had it in my entire life, but I had it. Got rid of it. Got it again.
We can almost certainly pin the warming ocean as having a role in what we are seeing with the sickly sharks in Sipadan.
If this is true, it would be an amazing revelation, countering the idea that Tut was a weak and sickly boy-king.
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.
Translations for sickly
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- غثArabic
- malaltós, malaltís, malaltúsCatalan, Valencian
- fehlbar, kränklich, schwächlich, unwohl, fahl, welk, blassGerman
- débil, enfermizo, enclenque, tristeSpanish
- sairaalloinen, heikkoFinnish
- maladifFrench
- leice, meataIrish
- enfermizoGalician
- malaticcioItalian
- aewaMāori
- bolnăvicios, slabRomanian
- боле́зненный, ча́хлыйRussian
- sjukliga, sjuklig, sjukligtSwedish
- hastalıklıTurkish
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