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Adjectives (10)

sallow, sickly

adj. unhealthy looking

ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy

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"

Fuzzynyms (41)

frail

adj. physically weak; "an invalid's frail body"

unsound

adj. not sound financially; "unsound banking practices"

imperfect

adj. not perfect; defective or inadequate; "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect"

ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy

pale

adj. not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

waxen, waxlike, waxy

adj. having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness"

wan

adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"

etiolate, etiolated, blanched

adj. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery"

colorless, colourless

adj. lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade"

anemic, anaemic

adj. lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball"

delicate

adj. exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"

unhealthy

adj. not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"

decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly

adj. lacking bodily or muscular 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"

frail

adj. physically weak; "an invalid's frail body"

sallow, sickly

adj. unhealthy looking

moribund

adj. being on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient"

retrograde, retrogressive

adj. going from better to worse

waning

adj. (of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases; "after full moon comes the waning moon"

Synonyms (101)

angry

adj. severely inflamed and painful; "an angry sore"

arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy

adj. of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief"

asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy

adj. relating to breathing with a whistling sound

blebby, blistery

adj. covered with small blisters

puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid

adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"

inflammatory

adj. characterized or caused by inflammation; "an inflammatory process"; "an inflammatory response"

cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous

adj. having an ulcer or canker

carbuncled, carbuncular

adj. afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle

carious

adj. (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay

caseous

adj. of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike

chilblained

adj. having chilblains; "her poor chilblained hands"

colicky, flatulent, gassy

adj. suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal

debilitated, enfeebled, infirm, seedy

adj. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"

diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological

adj. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"

edematous, dropsical

adj. swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid

enlarged

adj. larger than normal; "enlarged joints"

gangrenous, mortified

adj. suffering from tissue death

ingrowing, ingrown

adj. growing abnormally into the flesh; "an ingrown toenail"

membranous, membrane-forming

adj. characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane); "membranous gastritis"

sunburned, sunburnt

adj. suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight

varicose

adj. abnormally swollen or knotty; "varicose veins"

afflicted, stricken

adj. grievously affected especially by disease

aguish

adj. affected by ague

airsick, air sick, carsick, seasick

adj. experiencing motion sickness

bad, tough

adj. feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"

bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed

adj. confined to bed (by illness)

bilious, liverish, livery

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, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded

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

laid low(p), stricken

adj. put out of action (by illness)

laid up(p)

adj. ill and usually confined; "laid up with a bad cold"

unwell, menstruating

nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish

adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

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"

Antonyms (3)

healthy

adj. having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"

wholesome

adj. conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"

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"

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