Synonyms: sick
Definition: people who are sick
Usage: they devote their lives to caring for the sick
Similar words: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Synonyms: upchuck, vomit, vomit up, retch, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, cast, cat, chuck, sick, spew, spue, throw up, barf, be sick, disgorge, honk
Definition: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Usage: After drinking too much, the students vomited; He purged continuously; The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
Similar words: pass, egest, excrete, eliminate
Definition: eliminate from the body
Usage: Pass a kidney stone
Synonyms: gruesome, grim, grisly, ghastly, sick, macabre
Definition: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Usage: ghastly wounds; the grim aftermath of the bombing; the grim task of burying the victims; a grisly murder; gruesome evidence of human sacrifice; macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages; macabre tortures conceived by madmen
Similar words: alarming
Definition: frightening because of an awareness of danger
Synonyms: sick
Definition: deeply affected by a strong feeling
Usage: sat completely still, sick with envy; she was sick with longing
Similar words: moved, touched, stirred, affected
Definition: being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
Usage: too moved to speak; very touched by the stranger's kindness
Synonyms: disgusted, tired of, sick, sick of, fed up
Definition: having a strong distaste from surfeit
Usage: grew more and more disgusted; fed up with their complaints; sick of it all; sick to death of flattery; gossip that makes one sick; tired of the noise and smoke
Similar words: displeased
Definition: not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure
Synonyms: disturbed, demented, crazy, mad, unbalanced, unhinged, sick, brainsick
Definition: affected with madness or insanity
Usage: a man who had gone mad
Similar words: insane
Definition: afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement
Usage: was declared insane; insane laughter
Synonyms: pale, pallid, wan, sick
Definition: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
Usage: the pale light of a half moon; a pale sun; the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street; a pallid sky; the pale (or wan) stars; the wan light of dawn
Definition: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
Usage: ill from the monotony of his suffering
Similar words: stricken, afflicted
Definition: grievously affected especially by disease
Similar words: aguish
Definition: affected by ague
Similar words: ailing, under the weather, indisposed, poorly, unwell, peaked, sickly, seedy
Definition: somewhat ill or prone to illness
Usage: 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
Similar words: seasick, air sick, airsick, carsick
Definition: experiencing motion sickness
Similar words: autistic
Definition: characteristic of or affected with autism
Usage: autistic behavior; autistic children
Similar words: bedfast, bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed
Definition: confined to bed (by illness)
Similar words: bilious, liverish, livery
Definition: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
Similar words: bronchitic
Definition: suffering from or prone to bronchitis
Similar words: consumptive
Definition: afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis
Usage: a consumptive patient; a consumptive cough
Similar words: convalescent, recovering
Definition: returning to health after illness or debility
Usage: convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed
Similar words: delirious, hallucinating
Definition: experiencing delirium
Similar words: diabetic
Definition: suffering from diabetes
Similar words: dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous
Definition: having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
Usage: 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
Similar words: dyspeptic
Definition: suffering from dyspepsia
Similar words: swooning, faint, light, light-headed, lightheaded
Definition: weak and likely to lose consciousness
Usage: 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
Similar words: feverish, feverous
Definition: having or affected by a fever
Similar words: funny
Definition: experiencing odd bodily sensations
Usage: told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest
Similar words: gouty
Definition: suffering from gout
Similar words: green
Definition: looking pale and unhealthy
Usage: you're looking green; green around the gills
Similar words: stricken, laid low
Definition: put out of action (by illness)
Similar words: laid up
Definition: ill and usually confined
Usage: laid up with a bad cold
Similar words: milk-sick
Definition: affected with or related to milk sickness
Similar words: nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickish, queasy
Definition: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
Similar words: palsied
Definition: affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor
Usage: palsied hands
Similar words: paralytic, paralyzed
Definition: affected with paralysis
Similar words: paraplegic
Definition: suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord
Similar words: rachitic, rickety
Definition: affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets
Usage: rickety limbs and joints; a rachitic patient
Similar words: scrofulous
Definition: afflicted with scrofula
Similar words: sneezy
Definition: inclined to sneeze
Similar words: spastic
Definition: suffering from spastic paralysis
Usage: a spastic child
Similar words: tubercular, tuberculous
Definition: constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus
Usage: a tubercular child; tuberculous patients; tubercular meningitis
Similar words: unhealed
Definition: not healed
Usage: an unhealed wound
Similar words: upset
Definition: mildly physically distressed
Usage: an upset stomach
Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickish, queasy
Definition: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
Definition: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
Usage: ill from the monotony of his suffering