Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Verb

Noun

Proper Noun

The word "sick" can be used as adjective, adjective, verb, noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

crap fit healthy well

Typical Location

hospital

Derived Terms

I'm sick airsick altitude-sick be sick be taken sick black-sick brainsick call in sick call out sick carsick dogsick dope sick euthyroid sick syndrome fall sick fancy-sick get sick guilt-sick heartsick homesick iron sick iron-sick ironsick junk sick junk-sick lovesick lung sick milt-sick moonsick nail sick nailsick never sick at sea often implying some level of deceit as in out sick pig-sick saddle-sick seasick sick and tired sick and twisted sick as a cat sick as a dog sick as a horse sick as a parrot sick ass sick at heart sick bag sick bay sick building sick building syndrome sick burn sick call sick club sick day sick headache sick joke sick leave sick list sick lit sick man sick man of Asia sick man of East Asia sick man of Europe sick note sick nurse sick office syndrome sick parade sick pay sick puppy sick sinus syndrome sick to one's stomach sick to the back teeth sick up sick-abed sick-ass sick-wagon sickbay sickbed sicken sickening sickhouse sickie sickie a day of sick leave sickish sickly sickness sicko sickout sickroom soulsick take sick thoughtsick tobacco-sick turn-sick white-sick worry someone sick

Distinct From

healthy well

Inflected/Variant Forms

sic

Context

agriculture american british slang

Subevents

cry going to doctor have headache might have to have operation

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

egest eliminate excrete pass people

Type Of (IsA)

condition of health people

Related Terms

annoyed badass be ill being being ill cold cold fever crop diseased fever flu harvest ill illness sicken tired unwell vomit

Similar Terms

affected afflicted aguish ailing air sick airsick alarming autistic bedfast bedrid bedridden bilious bronchitic carsick consumptive convalescent delirious diabetic displeased dizzy dyspeptic faint feverish feverous funny giddy gouty green hallucinating hungover ill indisposed insane laid low laid up light light-headed lightheaded liverish livery milk-sick moved moved p nauseated nauseous palsied paralytic paralyzed paraplegic peaked poorly queasy rachitic recovering rickety scrofulous seasick seedy sick-abed sickish sickly sneezy spastic stirred stricken swooning touched tubercular tuberculous under the weather unfit unhealed unhealthy unwell upset vertiginous weak woozy

Synonym Network

brainsick disgusted disturbed gruesome ill nauseated pallid rad vomit

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