sickly

sickly is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as adverb, transitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
2. superlative. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
3. superlative. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
4. superlative. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
5. adverb. In a sick manner or condition; ill.
6. transitive verb. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.
7. adjective. unhealthy looking

   Synonyms: sallow

8. adjective. somewhat ill or prone to illness

   "my poor ailing grandmother"

   "feeling a bit indisposed today"

   Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, unwell

Synonyms

sallow, ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, unwell

Common word forms

sicklied, sicklier, sicklies, sicklily, sickliest, sicklying

Words from these letters

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