sick
affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
How often you will meet it
Rank 992 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 18,473 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function also: ill ill from the monotony of his suffering
- feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit also: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish
- affected with madness or insanity also: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced a man who had gone mad
- having a strong distaste from surfeit also: disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of grew more and more disgustedfed up with their complaints
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble also: pale, pallid, wan the pale light of a half moona pale sun
- deeply affected by a strong feeling sat completely still, sick with envyshe was sick with longing
noun
- people who are sick they devote their lives to caring for the sick
sick in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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In response to those intolerable words Bobby's sick nerves stretched too tight.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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The smoking-hot dinner sends up its fumes, and makes the sick more sick.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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When she went back to the stove she had a smile ready for the sick boy.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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With a sick chaos of pain pounding at what seemed to be his lungs he met her.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Your followers Have swallowed you, like mummia, and being sick With such unnatural and horrid physic, Vomit you up i' th' kennel.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1