Dictionary Entry
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
- 1superlative
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
- 2superlative
Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
- 3superlative
Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
- 4superlative
Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
- 5adverb
In a sick manner or condition; ill.
- 6transitive verb
To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.
- 7adjective
unhealthy looking
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- 8adjective
somewhat ill or prone to illness
"my poor ailing grandmother"
"feeling a bit indisposed today"
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