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- DictionarySick/sik/
adjective
- 1. affected by physical or mental illness: "nursing very sick children"
- 2. feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit: "he was starting to feel sick"
noun
- 1. vomit: British "she was busy wiping sick from the carpet"
verb
- 1. bring something up by vomiting: British "he was passing blood and sicking it up"
The meaning of SICK is affected with disease or ill health : ailing. How to use sick in a sentence.
SICK meaning: 1. physically or mentally ill; not well or healthy: 2. to tell your employer, usually by phone…. Learn more.
Sick definition: affected with ill health, disease, or illness; ailing. See examples of SICK used in a sentence.
While sick usually refers to people with physical or mental illnesses, it can also be used to describe an object or system that isn't working right, like a sick economy. Sick can also mean that you're tired of something, like a song you have heard too many times — you're sick of it.
1. a. Suffering from or affected with a physical illness; ailing. b. Of or for sick persons: sick wards. c. Nauseated. 2. a. Mentally ill or disturbed. b. Unwholesome, morbid, or sadistic: a sick joke; a sick crime. 3. Defective; unsound: a sick economy. 4. a. Deeply distressed; upset: sick with worry. b. Disgusted; revolted.
to be bored with or annoyed about something that has been happening for a long time: I'm sick of people telling me how to run my life. It makes me sick. informal. something you say when you are jealous of someone: She looks fantastic whatever she wears - it makes me sick. sick adjective (CRUEL) cruel and unpleasant: He's got a sick mind.
Definition of sick adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
sick in American English. (sɪk) (adjective -er, -est) adjective. 1. afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing. 2. affected with nausea; inclined to vomit. 3. deeply affected with some unpleasant feeling, as of sorrow, disgust, or boredom.
adjective. sickest, sicker. Suffering from disease or illness; unwell; ill. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Having nausea; about to vomit or in the act of vomiting. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Of or for sick people.
Britannica Dictionary definition of SICK. [also more sick; most sick] 1. : affected with a disease or illness : ill. He is at home sick in bed. She is sick with the flu. I'm too sick to go to work. [+] more examples. — sometimes used figuratively.
