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. [1913 Webster] This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. [1913 Webster] The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. --Keble. [1913 Webster] 4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality. [1913 Webster] Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint. [1913 Webster] 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}
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