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Definition of Sickly

1. Adjective. Unhealthy looking.

2. Adjective. Somewhat ill or prone to illness. "Is unwell and can't come to work"

Definition of Sickly

1. a. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.

2. adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill.

3. v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.

Definition of Sickly

1. Adjective. Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill. ¹

2. Adjective. Having the appearance of sickness or ill health; appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; pale. ¹

3. Adjective. Weak; faint; suggesting unhappiness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sickly

1. appearing as if sick [adj -LIER, -LIEST] : SICKLILY [adv] / to make sickly [v -LIED, -LYING, -LIES] - See also: sickly

Medical Definition of Sickly

1. 1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. "This physic but prolongs thy sickly days." (Shak) 2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. 3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. "The moon grows sickly at the sight of day." (Dryden) "Nor torrid summer's sickly smile." (Keble) 4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality. Synonym: Diseased, ailing, infirm, weakly, unhealthy, healthless, weak, feeble, languid, faint. Origin: Sicklier; Sickliest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sickly

sickler sicklerite sicklers sickles sickless sickleweed golden aster sicklewort sicklied sicklier sicklies

sickliest sicklily sickliness sicklinesses sickling sickly (current term) sickly-sweet sickly sweet sicklying sickness

sickness benefit sickness impact profile sicknesses sicko sickoes sickos sickout sickouts sickroom sickrooms

Literary usage of Sickly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"True it is, also, that those sulphates, together with organic matter, are found in most, if not in all sickly localities, and hence that the gas m question ..."

2. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"... and the sickly among them revive, and become robust and healthy. After the grinding is finished, ..."

3. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"They drink freely of cane- juice, and the sickly among them revive, and become robust and healthy. After the grinding is finished, the negroes have several ..."

4. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"... of justice and few physicians, treated^ Where many of either are needed, this is a proof that but sickly ill-regulated minds and diseased bodies abound. ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... and censures, with some acrimony, the sickly and affected taste of those men who impertinently derided the sacred traditions of their ancestors.14 But ..."

6. The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers by Lindley Murray (1833)
"... 5 All our gaiety is vain, 4 No delights are worth thy stay, Smiling as they seem, and gay; Short and sickly are they all, Hardly tasted ere they pall. ..."

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