sick

sick is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
2. superlative. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
3. superlative. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
4. superlative. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
5. noun. Sickness.
6. intransitive verb. To fall sick; to sicken.
7. noun. people who are sick

   "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"

8. verb. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

   "After drinking too much, the students vomited"

   "He purged continuously"

   Synonyms: barf, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, spew

9. adjective. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

   "ghastly wounds"

   "the grim aftermath of the bombing"

   Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre

10. adjective. deeply affected by a strong feeling

    "sat completely still, sick with envy"

    "she was sick with longing"

11. adjective. having a strong distaste from surfeit

    "grew more and more disgusted"

    "fed up with their complaints"

    Synonyms: disgusted

12. adjective. affected with madness or insanity

    "a man who had gone mad"

    Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged

13. adjective. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

    "the pale light of a half moon"

    "a pale sun"

    Synonyms: pale, pallid, wan

14. adjective. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

    "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

    Synonyms: ill

15. adjective. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

    Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish

Synonyms

barf, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, spew, spue, upchuck, vomit, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, disgusted, brainsick, crazy, demented

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sick:

icks

Common word forms

sicks, sicked, sicken, sicker, sickly, sickest, sicking, sickless, sickness

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