Nouns (1)
sick
n. people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
Verbs (17)
cast, vomit, cat, chuck, honk, puke, regurgitate, disgorge, regorge, retch, barf, spew, spue, upchuck, be sick, throw up, vomit up
v. 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"
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (12)
ill
adj. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
nauseated, queasy, sickish
adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
crazy, disturbed, mad, distracted, unbalanced, brainsick, demented, unhinged
adj. affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
Fuzzynyms (43)
inferior
adj. of low or inferior quality
puny
adj. inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses"
offensive, loathsome
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
foul, vile, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
weak, infirm, feeble, decrepit, weakly
adj. lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"
ill
adj. not good; unfriendly or harmful: "ill manners"; "ill repute"; "ill deeds"; "ill will"; "an ill wind"
unhealthy
adj. not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"
mad, insane, harebrained
adj. very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"
detached, unconnected
adj. not joined or linked together
separated, spaced
adj. spaced apart
cut off, severed
adj. detached by cutting; "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm"
incongruous, unreasonable, absurd
adj. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
steep, exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, unconscionable, usurious
adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"
irrational
adj. not consistent with or using reason; "irrational fears"; "irrational animals"
uneven
adj. not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain"
unsteady
adj. subject to change or variation; "her unsteady walk"; "his hand was unsteady as he poured the wine"; "an unsteady voice"
Synonyms (96)
unhealthy
adj. not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"
unfit
adj. not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service"
stricken, afflicted
adj. grievously affected especially by disease
aguish
adj. affected by ague
sickly, indisposed, peaked, ailing, poorly, unwell
adj. 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"
airsick, carsick, seasick
adj. experiencing motion sickness
bad
adj. in poor health or in pain: "I feel bad"
infirm, bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed
adj. confined to bed (by illness)
livery, bilious, liverish
adj. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
bronchitic
adj. suffering from or prone to bronchitis
consumptive
adj. afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
convalescent, recovering
adj. returning to health after illness or debility; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed"
delirious, hallucinating
adj. experiencing delirium
diabetic
adj. suffering from diabetes
dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous
adj. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"
dyspeptic
adj. suffering from dyspepsia
faint, lightheaded, light-headed, swooning
adj. weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep"
feverish, feverous
adj. having or affected by a fever
gouty
adj. suffering from gout
stricken, laid low
adj. put out of action (by illness)
laid up
adj. ill and usually confined; "laid up with a bad cold"
unwell, menstruating
adj. 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"
scrofulous
adj. afflicted with scrofula
sneezy
adj. inclined to sneeze
spastic
adj. suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child"
tubercular, tuberculous
adj. constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus; "a tubercular child"; "tuberculous patients"; "tubercular meningitis"
unhealed
adj. not healed; "an unhealed wound"
upset
adj. mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach"
demoniac, demoniacal, possessed, amuck, amok, berserk
adj. in a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows"
certified, certifiable
adj. fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly)
crackbrained, idiotic
adj. insanely irresponsible; "an idiotic idea"
crazed, deranged, half-crazed
adj. driven insane
touched, fey
adj. slightly insane
frenzied, frenzy-free
adj. affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason; "a frenzied attack"; "a frenzied mob"; "the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity"
schizophrenic, hebephrenic
adj. suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior
lunatic, moonstruck
adj. insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon
maniac, maniacal
adj. wildly disordered; "a maniacal frenzy"
manic, maniclike
adj. resembling the mania of manic-depressive illness
manic-depressive
adj. suffering from a disorder characterized by alternating mania and depression
unsound, unstable, mentally ill
adj. suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"
of unsound mind, non compos mentis
adj. not of sound mind, memory, or understanding; in law, not competent to go to trial
paranoid
adj. suffering from paranoia
psychopathic, psychopathologic, psychopathological
adj. suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder
psychotic
adj. characteristic of or suffering from psychosis
raving, wild, raving mad
adj. talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic"
schizophrenic
adj. suffering from some form of schizophrenia; "schizophrenic patients"
screw-loose, screwy
adj. not behaving normally
Antonyms (13)
keep down
v. manage not to throw up
well
adj. in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury; "appears to be entirely well"; "the wound is nearly well"; "a well man"; "I think I'm well; at least I feel well"
healthy, in good health
adj. having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"
healthy
adj. having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"
fit, healthy
adj. physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise"
sane
adj. mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane"
sensible, reasonable
adj. showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person"
rational, reasonable
adj. marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy"
stable
adj. not subject to emotional instability
sick
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