English-Thai Dictionary

sickly

ADJ ซึ่ง ไม่น่า มอง  น่าเกลียด  suang-mai-na-mong

 

sickly

ADJ เจ็บป่วย บ่อย  ป่วย เรื้อรัง  ซีดเซียว  บอบบาง  ไม่ แข็งแรง  กระเสาะกระแสะ  feeble weak healthy well jeb-puad-boi

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SICKLY

a. 1. Not healthy; somewhat affected with disease; or habitually indisposed; as a sickly person, or a sickly constitution; a sickly plant.
2. Producing disease extensively; marked with sickness; as a sickly time; a sickly autumn.
3. Tending to produce disease; as a sickly climate.
4. Faint; weak; languid. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.

 

SICKLY

v.t.To make diseased.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SICKLY

Sick "ly, a. [Compar. Sicklier; superl. Sickliest.]

 

1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak.

 

2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper.

 

3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden. Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble.

 

4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.

 

Syn. -- Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.

 

SICKLY

SICKLY Sick "ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a sick manner or condition; ill. My people sickly [with ill will ] beareth our marriage. Chaucer.

 

SICKLY

SICKLY Sick "ly, v. t.

 

Defn: To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.] Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak. Sentiments sicklied over. .. with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. Jeffrey.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sickly

sick ly |ˈsiklē ˈsɪkli | ▶adjective ( sicklier, sickliest ) 1 often ill; in poor health: she was a thin, sickly child. • (of a person's complexion or expression ) indicative of poor health: his usual sickly pallor. • literary (of a place, climate, or time ) causing or characterized by unhealthiness: a deep sickly vaporous swamp. 2 (of a flavor, smell, color, or light ) so unpleasant as to induce discomfort or nausea: the walls were painted a sickly green | she liked her coffee sweet and sickly. • excessively sentimental or mawkish: a sickly fable of delicate young lovers. DERIVATIVES sick li ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: probably suggested by Old Norse sjúkligr.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sickly

sick ¦ly |ˈsɪkli | ▶adjective ( sicklier, sickliest ) 1 often ill; in poor health: she was a thin, sickly child. • (of a person's complexion or expression ) indicative of poor health: his usual sickly pallor. • literary (of a place or climate ) causing or characterized by unhealthiness: a sickly vaporous swamp. 2 (of a flavour, smell, colour, etc. ) unpleasant in a way that induces discomfort or nausea: the walls were painted a sickly green | she liked her coffee sweet and sickly. • excessively sentimental or mawkish: a sickly fable of delicate young lovers. DERIVATIVES sickliness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: probably suggested by Old Norse sjúkligr.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

sickly

sickly adjective 1 a sickly child: unhealthy, in poor health, delicate, frail, weak. ANTONYMS healthy. 2 sickly faces: pale, wan, pasty, sallow, pallid, ashen, anemic. ANTONYMS rosy. 3 a sickly green: insipid, pale, light, light-colored, washed out, faded. ANTONYMS deep. 4 sickly love songs: sentimental, mawkish, cloying, sugary, syrupy, saccharine; informal mushy, slushy, schmaltzy, weepy, lovey-dovey, corny, cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hankie.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sickly

sickly adjective 1 a sickly child: unhealthy, in poor health, chronically ill, often ill, always ill; delicate, frail, weak, feeble, puny. ANTONYMS healthy, robust. 2 the foul streets and the sickly faces he encountered: pale, wan, pasty, colourless, sallow, pallid, white, waxen, ashen; ashen-faced, anaemic, bloodless, peaky, peakish, languid, listless, washed out; informal like death warmed up; Scottish informal peely-wally; rare etiolated, lymphatic. ANTONYMS healthy-looking. 3 his hotel room had been repainted a sickly green: bilious, nauseating, distasteful, unattractive; lurid, garish, loud, violent. ANTONYMS muted, subtle. 4 sickly love songs: sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, mawkish, cloying, sugary, syrupy, saccharine, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite; Brit. twee; informal mushy, slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling; Brit. informal soppy; N. Amer. informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hankie.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sickly

s í ck ly 形容詞 1 〈人が 〉病弱な, 弱々しい ; 〈顔色が 〉悪い, 青白い (pale 1 ); 〈組織などが 〉脆弱 （ぜいじゃく ）な ▸ a sickly child 身体の弱い子供 .2 〈におい 味が 〉不快な, 気分を悪くさせる .3 〈色 光が 〉薄暗い .4 〈気候などが 〉健康に悪い ; 〈季節などが 〉病気のはやる .5 ひどく感傷的な .