sicklyadj.

Brit.

/ˈsɪkli/, U.S.

/ˈsɪkli/

Forms: Middle English sekly, Middle English sekely, seekly, 1500s Scottish seiklie; Middle English sykliche, 1500s syck(e)ly, 1500s–1600s sickely, sicklie, 1500s– sickly (1600s sickley).

Etymology: < sick adj. + -ly suffix¹. Compare Middle Dutch siekelic (Dutch ziekelijk), Middle High German (and German) siechlich, Old Icelandic sjúkligr, Norwegian sjukleg, Swedish sjuklig, Danish sygelig.

a. Ailing or indisposed; in a poor state of health; not robust or strong.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased

untrumc825

sickc888

unwholec888

slackc897

unstronga900

sicklea1000

sam-halea1023

worseOE

attaint1303

languishinga1325

heallessc1374

sicklyc1374

sicklewa1387

bada1393

mishalea1400

languoring?c1425

distempered1440

unwell?c1450

detent?a1475

poora1475

languorousc1475

maladif1481

illa1500

maladiousc1500

wanthriven1508

attainted1509

unsound1513

acrazed1521

cracked1527

unsoundya1529

visited1537

infirmed1552

crazed1555

healthless1568

ill-liking1572

afflicted1574

crazy1576

unhealthful1580

sickish1581

valetudinary1581

not well1587

fainty1590

ill-disposed1596

unhealthsome1598

tainted1600

ill-affected1604

peaking1611

unhealthy1611

infirmited1616

disaffected1626

physical1633

illish1637

pimping1640

invalid1642

misaffected1645

valetudinarious1648

unhale1653

badly1654

unwholesome1655

valetudinous1655

morbulent1656

off the hooksa1658

mawkish1668

morbid1668

unthriven1680

unsane1690

ailing1716

not wellish1737

underlya1742

poorly1750

indifferent1753

comical1755

maladized1790

sober1808

sickened1815

broken-down1816

peaky1821

poorlyish1827

souffrante1827

run-down1831

sicklied1835

addle1844

shaky1844

mean1845

dauncy1846

stricken1846

peakyish1853

po'ly1860

pindling1861

rough1882

rocky1883

suffering1885

wabbit1895

icky-boo1920

like death warmed up1924

icky1938

ropy1945

crappy1956

hanging1971

sick as a parrot1982

shite1987

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak

unmightyeOE

unferea1060

unwieldc1220

fade1303

lewc1325

weak1340

fainta1375

sicklyc1374

unwieldyc1386

impotent1390

delicatea1398

lowa1398

unmighta1450

unlustyc1450

low-brought1459

wearyc1480

failed1490

worn1508

caduke?1518

fainty1530

weak1535

debile1536

fluey1545

tewly?1547

faltering1549

puling1549

imbecilec1550

debilitate1552

flash1562

unable1577

unhealthful1595

unabled1597

whindling1601

infirm1608

debilitated1611

bedrid1629

washya1631

silly1636

fluea1645

tender1645

invaletudinary1661

languishant1674

valetudinaire?c1682

puly1688

thriftless1693

unheartya1699

wishy-washy1703

enervate1706

valetudinarian1713

lask1727

wersh1755

palliea1774

wankle1781

asthenic1789

atonic1792

squeal1794

adynamic1803

worn-down1814

totterish1817

asthenical1819

prostrate1820

used up1823

wankya1825

creaky1834

groggy1834

puny1838

imbeciled1840

rickety-rackety1840

muscleless1841

weedy1849

tottery1861

crocky1880

wimbly-wambly1881

ramshackle1889

twitterly1896

twittery1907

wonky1919

strung out1959

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 1528 Thou nedelees Counseylest me, that sykliche I me feyne!

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1505 Whan þemperour..seie him so sekly þat he ded semed,..sorwe sank to his hert.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 451/2 Seekly, or ofte seke, valitudinarius.

1483 Cath. Angl. 327/2 A Sekely man, valitudinarius.

1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 44 The impotent syckely and aged people, which be not able to travaile to the said Churches.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iv. 57 I am not such a sickely creature, I giue Heauen praise.

1623 R. Carpenter Conscionable Christian 99 When you shall lie on your beds sickly, or in health conferre with your souls secretly.

1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 55 Another of this way of Life, being sickly, expressed much Courage in..adventuring upon any hard Enterprize.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. iv. 36 The Captains of the squadron represented to the Commodore, that their ships companies were very sickly.

1779 A. Hamilton Let. 11 Sept. in Papers (1961) II. 167 The troops and seamen arrived in a very sickly condition.

1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) ii. 20 Being in the air so much..prevents my being sickly, as I used to be.

1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 339 A mother who did not care for her children would have feeble and sickly children.

absolute.1837 T. Hook Jack Brag II. ii. 55 Jack made an attempt at popularity amongst the sicklies at Cheltenham.figurative.1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 98 Leuing the pretence of necessitie, wherein they haue but a weake and sickly defence.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 17 In this sickely and elder age of the world.1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 164 As in Sick bodies, so in Sickly governments, Change is desired.1760 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. 48 Armorica..was then, like many other parts of the sickly empire, become a mere desert.

b. Of plants, etc.: Characterized by a feeble or unhealthy growth.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > [adjective] > growing poorly or withering

feyOE

withering1599

weak1600

misliking1601

unfirm1616

languishing1683

sickly1697

marcescent1727

weakly1775

miffy1850

wilting1884

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > exhausted

worn1681

sickly1697

potato-sick1834

harvestless1868

scourged1880

turnip-sick1880

soil-sick1962

desertified1980

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 22 No fruitful Crop the sickly Fields return.

1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day i. 5 Yet All must drop, as Autumn's sickliest Grain.

a1771 T. Gray Ess. I in W. Mason Mem. Life & Writings (1775) 193 As sickly Plants betray a niggard earth.

1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. i. i. 4 The herbage grew up in sickly patches.

1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 79 He found..the seeds of C. lancifolia represented by three sickly plants.

c. Of the mind: Weak, disordered.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > [adjective] > of mind, thought, etc.

feeble1393

weak1423

unsubtlea1500

shallowc1595

uncapacious1635

unprofound1677

shoal1728

rickety1738

sicklya1771

inexcursive1837

no-brow1922

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > of the mind

alienate?a1425

sicklya1771

stricken1796

a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 130 How oft in weak and sickly minds The sweets of kindness lavishly indulg'd Rankle to gall.

1781 G. Crabbe Library 6 Here alt'ratives by slow degrees controul The chronic habits of the sickly soul.

d. Of things: (cf. sick adj. 7).

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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective]

undisposedc1380

sicka1425

shrewdc1430

crazy1583

unsound1617

vitiated1620

depravate1665

depraveda1807

sickly1826

1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 32 The beer..cannot recover itself, but remains sickly, and becomes sour.

2. Of conditions, etc.: Connected with, arising from, characterized by, ill-health.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > characterized by ill health

sickly1406

queasy1603

valetudinary1620

valetudinarian1713

1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 15 My body empty is,..and ful of seekly heuynesse.

c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 124 My seekly distresse For-bad myn eres vsen hire office.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 40 To satisfie his seiklie appetyte.

1689 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 631 Things far from the settlement..by reason of the slothfull sickly temper of the new King.

1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 156 A sickly complaining Life they lead, because they will not take Courage.

1783 M. Cutler Let. 14 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 213 The sickly state of several families..in this place appears to me a striking demonstration of the baneful effects of cold springs.

1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence II. 490 It represented the youth..with a pensive and rather a sickly countenance.

1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. i. 6 Of all the evils that can befall a man I think a sickly youth must be the worst.

in extended use.1885 Liverpool Daily Post 30 June 4/6 Faded twigs keeping up a sickly struggle for existence.

†3. Pertaining to sickness or the sick. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective]

morbous?a1425

unsoundc1540

naughty1572

sick1597

sicklya1616

morbifica1691

morbose1692

ill-conditioned1700

morbid1748

pathic1846

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 112 Thou know'st shee ha's rais'd me from my sickly bed.

1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden iv. vi Give me my Gowne and Cap though, and set mee charily in my sickly chaire.

1728 J. Swift Stella's Birth-day:1726/7 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. (new ed.) iii. 313 She at your sickly Couch will wait.

a1814 Apollo's Choice ii. iii, in New Brit. Theatre IV. The sweet delight of tending on a sickly couch.

4. Marked by the occurrence or prevalence of sickness; unhealthy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [adjective]

evilc1000

unsete1387

pestilenta1398

pestilentiala1398

unhealfulc1400

unthendec1425

unsetyc1440

unwholesomec1455

ill1488

pestifere1490

contagious1495

infectious1534

pestiferous1538

unhealthsome1544

unkindlyc1570

deletery1576

deleterious1587

bad1589

unhealthful1598

unsound1598

unhealthy1600

sickly1604

deleterial1621

tetrous1637

insalubrious1638

unseasoned1638

cankered1645

healthless1650

insalutary1694

maliferous1727

insanous1742

unsalubrious1781

unsanitary1872

insanitary1874

devitalizing1875

antihygienic1876

unhygienic1883

unhealthy-looking1890

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iii. 96 This phisick but prolongs thy sickly daies.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World viii. 221 This is a very sickly place, and I believe hath need enough of an Hospital.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §77 In the late sickly season of the year.

a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 39 The island..became sickly and unhealthful to an extreme degree.

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 645 The ship lay out in the open bay; no vessel near her was sickly.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 424 The year 1685 was not accounted sickly.

5. Causing sickness or ill-health; producing discomfort or nausea.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > causing ill health

vicious1597

sickly1604

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. xiv. 114 To live vnder a heaven or aire that is contrarie, troublesome or sicklie.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 117 From the vicious Air, and sickly Skies, A Plague did on the dumb Creation rise.

1757 T. Gray Ode I ii. i, in Odes 7 Night, and all her sickly dews.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxx. 159 The sickly, and almost pestilential, exhalations of low and marshy grounds.

1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. iv. 291 We have sweet odours that are sickly, in other words, depressing.

1882 H. de Windt On Equator 113 Dense grey mists..enshrouding the pretty village in their sickly vapours.

6. Of light, colour, etc.: Faint, feeble.

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the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > faint or weak

wateryOE

dima1250

lighta1398

rare?1440

delayed1543

faint1552

weak1585

pale1598

distempered1621

washya1639

thin1649

languid1663

dilute1665

welmish1688

sickly1695

dimmed1863

1695 M. Prior Eng. Ballad 6 In vain France hopes the Sickly Light May equal William's fuller Day.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ix. 117 The broad beam of day, which feebly once Lighted the cheek of lean captivity, With a pale and sickly glare.

1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret I. iii. 50 The pale lavender muslin faded into a sickly grey.

1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children x. 77 When the sickly winter sun was feebly trying to shine through the grey clouds.

figurative.1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 310 A far-fetched, costly, sickly, imitation.

7. Of feelings, etc.: Weak, mawkish.

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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective]

sugary1591

maudlina1631

mawkish1702

sickly1766

emetic1770

mawky1773

pamby1820

sentimental1823

saccharine1841

sticky1841

mushy1848

sentimentalizing1856

Christmas card1860

maumish1866

slobbery1875

namby-pamby1883

sloppy1883

slushy1889

sentimentalistic1904

marshmallowy1907

hearts and flowers1911

slobby1913

soppy1918

meltyc1921

lavender1928

saccharescent1930

schmaltzya1934

sloshy1933

gooey1935

icky1938

cheesy1943

drippy1952

soupy1953

squishy1953

saccharined1962

gloopy1965

yechy1969

yucky1970

sucky1971

yuck1971

schmoozy1976

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iii. 27 His soul laboured under a sickly sensibility of the miseries of others.

1805 J. Foster Ess. iv. ii. 138 The fastidiousness of sickly taste.

1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 42 The sure mark of a sickly unreality in morals.

Compounds

sickly-born adj.

ΚΠ

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 15 Now the third child was sickly-born and grew Yet sicklier.

sickly-coloured adj.

ΚΠ

1882 Garden 18 Mar. 186/1 A sickly coloured sward throughout the summer.

sickly-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 24 This was the elderly and sickly-looking person, who had been precipitated into the river along with the two young lawyers.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 358/2 He was sickly-looking, seemed dispirited at first.

sickly-scented adj.

ΚΠ

1932 D. Gascoyne Rom. Balcony 85 The courtesan in the sickly-scented secrecy of her thick-curtained chamber.

1951 S. Spender World within World 267 We had to distinguish between those which smelt like pear-drops, carnations and sickly-scented hay.

sickly-sweet adj.

ΚΠ

1912 R. A. Freeman Singing Bone 136 The same idea having occurred to me, I applied the handle of the knife to my nose and instantly detected the sickly-sweet odour of musk.

1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xiii. 222 The room was..sickly-sweet.

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单词	sickly
释义	sicklyadj. Brit. /ˈsɪkli/, U.S. /ˈsɪkli/ Forms: Middle English sekly, Middle English sekely, seekly, 1500s Scottish seiklie; Middle English sykliche, 1500s syck(e)ly, 1500s–1600s sickely, sicklie, 1500s– sickly (1600s sickley). Etymology: < sick adj. + -ly suffix¹. Compare Middle Dutch siekelic (Dutch ziekelijk), Middle High German (and German) siechlich, Old Icelandic sjúkligr, Norwegian sjukleg, Swedish sjuklig, Danish sygelig. 1. a. Ailing or indisposed; in a poor state of health; not robust or strong. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased untrumc825 sickc888 unwholec888 slackc897 unstronga900 sicklea1000 sam-halea1023 worseOE attaint1303 languishinga1325 heallessc1374 sicklyc1374 sicklewa1387 bada1393 mishalea1400 languoring?c1425 distempered1440 unwell?c1450 detent?a1475 poora1475 languorousc1475 maladif1481 illa1500 maladiousc1500 wanthriven1508 attainted1509 unsound1513 acrazed1521 cracked1527 unsoundya1529 visited1537 infirmed1552 crazed1555 healthless1568 ill-liking1572 afflicted1574 crazy1576 unhealthful1580 sickish1581 valetudinary1581 not well1587 fainty1590 ill-disposed1596 unhealthsome1598 tainted1600 ill-affected1604 peaking1611 unhealthy1611 infirmited1616 disaffected1626 physical1633 illish1637 pimping1640 invalid1642 misaffected1645 valetudinarious1648 unhale1653 badly1654 unwholesome1655 valetudinous1655 morbulent1656 off the hooksa1658 mawkish1668 morbid1668 unthriven1680 unsane1690 ailing1716 not wellish1737 underlya1742 poorly1750 indifferent1753 comical1755 maladized1790 sober1808 sickened1815 broken-down1816 peaky1821 poorlyish1827 souffrante1827 run-down1831 sicklied1835 addle1844 shaky1844 mean1845 dauncy1846 stricken1846 peakyish1853 po'ly1860 pindling1861 rough1882 rocky1883 suffering1885 wabbit1895 icky-boo1920 like death warmed up1924 icky1938 ropy1945 crappy1956 hanging1971 sick as a parrot1982 shite1987 the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak unmightyeOE unferea1060 unwieldc1220 fade1303 lewc1325 weak1340 fainta1375 sicklyc1374 unwieldyc1386 impotent1390 delicatea1398 lowa1398 unmighta1450 unlustyc1450 low-brought1459 wearyc1480 failed1490 worn1508 caduke?1518 fainty1530 weak1535 debile1536 fluey1545 tewly?1547 faltering1549 puling1549 imbecilec1550 debilitate1552 flash1562 unable1577 unhealthful1595 unabled1597 whindling1601 infirm1608 debilitated1611 bedrid1629 washya1631 silly1636 fluea1645 tender1645 invaletudinary1661 languishant1674 valetudinaire?c1682 puly1688 thriftless1693 unheartya1699 wishy-washy1703 enervate1706 valetudinarian1713 lask1727 wersh1755 palliea1774 wankle1781 asthenic1789 atonic1792 squeal1794 adynamic1803 worn-down1814 totterish1817 asthenical1819 prostrate1820 used up1823 wankya1825 creaky1834 groggy1834 puny1838 imbeciled1840 rickety-rackety1840 muscleless1841 weedy1849 tottery1861 crocky1880 wimbly-wambly1881 ramshackle1889 twitterly1896 twittery1907 wonky1919 strung out1959 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 1528 Thou nedelees Counseylest me, that sykliche I me feyne! a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1505 Whan þemperour..seie him so sekly þat he ded semed,..sorwe sank to his hert. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 451/2 Seekly, or ofte seke, valitudinarius. 1483 Cath. Angl. 327/2 A Sekely man, valitudinarius. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 44 The impotent syckely and aged people, which be not able to travaile to the said Churches. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iv. 57 I am not such a sickely creature, I giue Heauen praise. View more context for this quotation 1623 R. Carpenter Conscionable Christian 99 When you shall lie on your beds sickly, or in health conferre with your souls secretly. 1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 55 Another of this way of Life, being sickly, expressed much Courage in..adventuring upon any hard Enterprize. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. iv. 36 The Captains of the squadron represented to the Commodore, that their ships companies were very sickly. 1779 A. Hamilton Let. 11 Sept. in Papers (1961) II. 167 The troops and seamen arrived in a very sickly condition. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) ii. 20 Being in the air so much..prevents my being sickly, as I used to be. 1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 339 A mother who did not care for her children would have feeble and sickly children. absolute.1837 T. Hook Jack Brag II. ii. 55 Jack made an attempt at popularity amongst the sicklies at Cheltenham.figurative.1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 98 Leuing the pretence of necessitie, wherein they haue but a weake and sickly defence.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 17 In this sickely and elder age of the world.1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 164 As in Sick bodies, so in Sickly governments, Change is desired.1760 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. 48 Armorica..was then, like many other parts of the sickly empire, become a mere desert. b. Of plants, etc.: Characterized by a feeble or unhealthy growth. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > [adjective] > growing poorly or withering feyOE withering1599 weak1600 misliking1601 unfirm1616 languishing1683 sickly1697 marcescent1727 weakly1775 miffy1850 wilting1884 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > exhausted worn1681 sickly1697 potato-sick1834 harvestless1868 scourged1880 turnip-sick1880 soil-sick1962 desertified1980 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 22 No fruitful Crop the sickly Fields return. 1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day i. 5 Yet All must drop, as Autumn's sickliest Grain. a1771 T. Gray Ess. I in W. Mason Mem. Life & Writings (1775) 193 As sickly Plants betray a niggard earth. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. i. i. 4 The herbage grew up in sickly patches. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 79 He found..the seeds of C. lancifolia represented by three sickly plants. c. Of the mind: Weak, disordered. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > [adjective] > of mind, thought, etc. feeble1393 weak1423 unsubtlea1500 shallowc1595 uncapacious1635 unprofound1677 shoal1728 rickety1738 sicklya1771 inexcursive1837 no-brow1922 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > of the mind alienate?a1425 sicklya1771 stricken1796 a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 130 How oft in weak and sickly minds The sweets of kindness lavishly indulg'd Rankle to gall. 1781 G. Crabbe Library 6 Here alt'ratives by slow degrees controul The chronic habits of the sickly soul. d. Of things: (cf. sick adj. 7). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] undisposedc1380 sicka1425 shrewdc1430 crazy1583 unsound1617 vitiated1620 depravate1665 depraveda1807 sickly1826 1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 32 The beer..cannot recover itself, but remains sickly, and becomes sour. 2. Of conditions, etc.: Connected with, arising from, characterized by, ill-health. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > characterized by ill health sickly1406 queasy1603 valetudinary1620 valetudinarian1713 1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 15 My body empty is,..and ful of seekly heuynesse. c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 124 My seekly distresse For-bad myn eres vsen hire office. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 40 To satisfie his seiklie appetyte. 1689 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 631 Things far from the settlement..by reason of the slothfull sickly temper of the new King. 1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 156 A sickly complaining Life they lead, because they will not take Courage. 1783 M. Cutler Let. 14 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 213 The sickly state of several families..in this place appears to me a striking demonstration of the baneful effects of cold springs. 1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence II. 490 It represented the youth..with a pensive and rather a sickly countenance. 1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. i. 6 Of all the evils that can befall a man I think a sickly youth must be the worst. in extended use.1885 Liverpool Daily Post 30 June 4/6 Faded twigs keeping up a sickly struggle for existence. †3. Pertaining to sickness or the sick. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] morbous?a1425 unsoundc1540 naughty1572 sick1597 sicklya1616 morbifica1691 morbose1692 ill-conditioned1700 morbid1748 pathic1846 a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 112 Thou know'st shee ha's rais'd me from my sickly bed. View more context for this quotation 1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden iv. vi Give me my Gowne and Cap though, and set mee charily in my sickly chaire. 1728 J. Swift Stella's Birth-day:1726/7 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. (new ed.) iii. 313 She at your sickly Couch will wait. a1814 Apollo's Choice ii. iii, in New Brit. Theatre IV. The sweet delight of tending on a sickly couch. 4. Marked by the occurrence or prevalence of sickness; unhealthy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [adjective] evilc1000 unsete1387 pestilenta1398 pestilentiala1398 unhealfulc1400 unthendec1425 unsetyc1440 unwholesomec1455 ill1488 pestifere1490 contagious1495 infectious1534 pestiferous1538 unhealthsome1544 unkindlyc1570 deletery1576 deleterious1587 bad1589 unhealthful1598 unsound1598 unhealthy1600 sickly1604 deleterial1621 tetrous1637 insalubrious1638 unseasoned1638 cankered1645 healthless1650 insalutary1694 maliferous1727 insanous1742 unsalubrious1781 unsanitary1872 insanitary1874 devitalizing1875 antihygienic1876 unhygienic1883 unhealthy-looking1890 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iii. 96 This phisick but prolongs thy sickly daies. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World viii. 221 This is a very sickly place, and I believe hath need enough of an Hospital. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §77 In the late sickly season of the year. a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 39 The island..became sickly and unhealthful to an extreme degree. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 645 The ship lay out in the open bay; no vessel near her was sickly. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 424 The year 1685 was not accounted sickly. 5. Causing sickness or ill-health; producing discomfort or nausea. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > causing ill health vicious1597 sickly1604 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. xiv. 114 To live vnder a heaven or aire that is contrarie, troublesome or sicklie. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 117 From the vicious Air, and sickly Skies, A Plague did on the dumb Creation rise. View more context for this quotation 1757 T. Gray Ode I ii. i, in Odes 7 Night, and all her sickly dews. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxx. 159 The sickly, and almost pestilential, exhalations of low and marshy grounds. 1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. iv. 291 We have sweet odours that are sickly, in other words, depressing. 1882 H. de Windt On Equator 113 Dense grey mists..enshrouding the pretty village in their sickly vapours. 6. Of light, colour, etc.: Faint, feeble. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > faint or weak wateryOE dima1250 lighta1398 rare?1440 delayed1543 faint1552 weak1585 pale1598 distempered1621 washya1639 thin1649 languid1663 dilute1665 welmish1688 sickly1695 dimmed1863 1695 M. Prior Eng. Ballad 6 In vain France hopes the Sickly Light May equal William's fuller Day. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ix. 117 The broad beam of day, which feebly once Lighted the cheek of lean captivity, With a pale and sickly glare. 1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret I. iii. 50 The pale lavender muslin faded into a sickly grey. 1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children x. 77 When the sickly winter sun was feebly trying to shine through the grey clouds. figurative.1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 310 A far-fetched, costly, sickly, imitation. 7. Of feelings, etc.: Weak, mawkish. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective] sugary1591 maudlina1631 mawkish1702 sickly1766 emetic1770 mawky1773 pamby1820 sentimental1823 saccharine1841 sticky1841 mushy1848 sentimentalizing1856 Christmas card1860 maumish1866 slobbery1875 namby-pamby1883 sloppy1883 slushy1889 sentimentalistic1904 marshmallowy1907 hearts and flowers1911 slobby1913 soppy1918 meltyc1921 lavender1928 saccharescent1930 schmaltzya1934 sloshy1933 gooey1935 icky1938 cheesy1943 drippy1952 soupy1953 squishy1953 saccharined1962 gloopy1965 yechy1969 yucky1970 sucky1971 yuck1971 schmoozy1976 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iii. 27 His soul laboured under a sickly sensibility of the miseries of others. 1805 J. Foster Ess. iv. ii. 138 The fastidiousness of sickly taste. 1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 42 The sure mark of a sickly unreality in morals. Compounds sickly-born adj. ΚΠ 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 15 Now the third child was sickly-born and grew Yet sicklier. sickly-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1882 Garden 18 Mar. 186/1 A sickly coloured sward throughout the summer. sickly-looking adj. ΚΠ 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 24 This was the elderly and sickly-looking person, who had been precipitated into the river along with the two young lawyers. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 358/2 He was sickly-looking, seemed dispirited at first. sickly-scented adj. ΚΠ 1932 D. Gascoyne Rom. Balcony 85 The courtesan in the sickly-scented secrecy of her thick-curtained chamber. 1951 S. Spender World within World 267 We had to distinguish between those which smelt like pear-drops, carnations and sickly-scented hay. sickly-sweet adj. ΚΠ 1912 R. A. Freeman Singing Bone 136 The same idea having occurred to me, I applied the handle of the knife to my nose and instantly detected the sickly-sweet odour of musk. 1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xiii. 222 The room was..sickly-sweet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sicklyv. Brit. /ˈsɪkli/, U.S. /ˈsɪkli/ Etymology: < sickly adj. 1. transitive. a. To cover over (or o'er) with a sickly hue. Chiefly figurative.Usually in direct echoes of the Shakespeare passage. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > lose colour [verb (transitive)] > make pale pale?a1425 palish1484 appalea1500 pall1539 pallify1576 empale1604 sickly1604 bepale1640 impallid1661 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 87 Thus the natiue hiew of resolution Is sickled [1623 sicklied] ore with the pale cast of thought. View more context for this quotation 1638 J. Suckling Aglaura iii. 21 Hope..has so sicklied ore Their resolutions, that wee must not trust them. 1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal IV. i. xxi. 141 Her features regular; but want had sicklied o'er their beauty. 1784 Universal Mag. 1 204 But there too, Superstition's hand Had sicklied every feature o'er. 1847 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 v. 225 I have seen the china-rose..sicklied all over with the myriads that thronged its leaves. 1876 W. Page-Roberts Law & God (ed. 4) 122 A man's virtues begin..to get an unhealthy cast and to be sicklied o'er. b. To render sickly or pale. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1763 C. Churchill Epist. to W. Hogarth 12 Thy Drudge..Sicklies our hopes with the pale hue of Fear. 1807 Fenton Epistles 52 Sicklied with age, and sour'd with self-disgrace. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. v. 103 The silver lustre of the maid sicklied the poor widow. 2. intransitive. To assume a sickly appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > wither [verb (intransitive)] falloweOE welka1300 starvec1400 witherc1400 dote?1440 wizena1450 mortifyc1475 vade1492 shrinkc1572 flitter1577 windle1579 shirpc1639 welter1645 welt1854 sickly1882 the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > lose colour [verb (intransitive)] > grow pale blakea1225 fallowa1250 blokec1275 palec1400 wan1582 bleacha1616 blanch1768 lighten1781 sicken1853 unflush1866 sickly1882 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 186 The broad oak foliage sicklied and looked parched. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † sicklyadv. Etymology: < sick adj. + -ly suffix². Obsolete. rare. In a sick manner; with sickness. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adverb] sickly1572 down1625 unhealthily1644 sadly1711 sicklily1727 wretchedly1728 morbidly1804 sickishly1847 1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bathes Ayde Ep. Ded. 2 When the state of the body is sicklie affected. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 108 Whose execution..Grapples you to the heart; and loue of vs, Who weare our Health but sickly in his Life. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.c1374v.1604adv.1572
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sicklyadj.

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sicklyv.

† sicklyadv.