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Type Words
Synonyms ill
Derivation sickness
Type Words
Synonyms brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged
Type Words
Synonyms disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of


sick of it all.
sick to death of flattery.
gossip that makes one sick.
Type Words
Synonyms pale, pallid, wan
Type Words
Synonyms ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre
Type Words
Synonyms nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish
Derivation sickness
Type Words
Synonyms barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up
Type of excrete, pass, egest, eliminate
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sat completely still, sick with envy.
she was sick with longing.
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Type of people


they devote their lives to caring for the sick.

Examples of sick

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Sick of the unpredictable weather and gray slush collecting in your wheel wells?
From the bostonherald.com
It's only material for sick adults who themselves engage in lascivious behavior.
From the democratandchronicle.com
These are basic symptoms that a doctor will consider to determine if we're sick.
From the sciencedaily.com
The vast majority of private sector workers can't accrue sick and vacation time.
From the timesunion.com
Concert proceeds will also aid the Hole in the Wall Gang camp for sick children.
From the timesunion.com
Plainly, something made its way into his sick brain and sent him after Giffords.
From the kentucky.com
An Action volunteer is keeping her when the man is sick because of chemotherapy.
From the post-gazette.com
There would be something fitting about that, in a sick sense of oil-spill irony.
From the newsweek.com
The junior high history teacher has been calling in sick, school officials said.
From the thenewstribune.com
More examples
  • Ill: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
  • People who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
  • Vomit: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
  • Nauseated: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
  • Brainsick: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
  • Disgusted: having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke"
  • Sick, the follow up to 2001's Dark Days, is the second studio album by Duff McKagan's Loaded released via Century Media on April 7, 2009, following the EP Wasted Heart from 2008. It was first released on March 20, 2009 in the Netherlands.
  • Sick was a satirical-humor magazine published from 1960 to 1980 and lasted 134 issues. It was created by comic-book writer-artist Joe Simon, who also edited the title until the late 1960s. Charlton Comics took over publishing the magazine in 1976 with issue #109.
  • Sick is the fourth album by French metal band Massacra. It introduces a notable change in the musical direction, including mid-paced thrash and groove elements. It was released in 1994.