Sicklier

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sickly \Sick"ly\, a. [Compar. {Sicklier}; superl. {Sickliest}.]
     1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease;
        as, a sickly body.
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              This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. --Shak.


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     2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a
        sickly climate. --Cowper.
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     3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
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              The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. --Dryden.
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              Nor torrid summer's sickly smile.     --Keble.
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     4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell;
        sickly sentimentality.
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     Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless;
          weak; feeble; languid; faint.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sickly
       adj 1: unhealthy looking [syn: {sallow}]
       2: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing
          grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look
          a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is
          unwell and can't come to work" [syn: {ailing}, {indisposed},
           {peaked(p)}, {poorly(p)}, {unwell}, {under the weather}]
       [also: {sickliest}, {sicklier}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sicklier
       See {sickly}