sick
1 (sĭk)
[Middle English, from Old English sēoc.]
adjective: sick·er, sick·est.
- Suffering from or affected with a physical illness; ailing.
- Of or for sick persons: sick wards.
- Nauseated.
- Mentally ill or disturbed.
- Unwholesome, morbid, or sadistic: a sick joke; a sick crime.
- Defective; unsound: a sick economy.
- Deeply distressed; upset: sick with worry.
- Disgusted; revolted.
- Weary; tired: sick of it all.
- Pining; longing: sick for his native land.
- In need of repairs: a sick ship.
- Constituting an unhealthy environment for those working or residing within: a sick office building.
- Unable to produce a profitable yield of crops: sick soil.
noun
- Sick people considered as a group. Often used with the.
idioms
- sick and tired
- Thoroughly weary, discouraged, or bored.
sick
2 (sĭk)
verb
- Variant of sic2
sic
2,
also sick
(sĭk)
[Dialectal variant of seek.]
transitive verb: sicced, also sicked, sic·cing, sick·ing, sics, sicks
- To set upon; attack.
- To urge or incite to hostile action; set: sicced the dogs on the intruders.
