Synonyms for sickly
ˈsɪk lisick·ly

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1. sickly

   Synonyms:
   weak, diseased, disordered, ailing, feeble, pining, droop, ing, morbid, unhealthy, vitiated, delicate, tainted, valetudinary

   Antonyms:
   strong, healthy, vigorous, flourishing, salubrious, sound, robust

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1. sallow, sicklyadjective

   unhealthy looking

   Synonyms:
   indisposed, sallow, peaked(p), under the weather, unwell, ailing, poorly(p), seedy

   Antonyms:
   well, healthy

2. ailing, 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"

   Antonyms:
   healthy, well

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1. worm eaten

   Submitted by Mollhyman on November 3, 2021  

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1. sicklyadjective

   Synonyms:
   weak, feeble, ailing, languishing, unhealthy, piping, whining

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1. sicklyadjective

   Synonyms:
   invalid, unwell, unhealthy, ailing, unwholesome, pale, languid, haggard, puny, peaked

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1. List of paraphrases for "sickly":

   sick

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How to use sickly in a sentence?

1. Amy Falcone:

   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.

2. Davies Austin Spiji:

   We can almost certainly pin the warming ocean as having a role in what we are seeing with the sickly sharks in Sipadan.

3. Lucy Skinner:

   If this is true, it would be an amazing revelation, countering the idea that Tut was a weak and sickly boy-king.

4. Wyndham Lewis:

   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.