sick

sick
adj
1. ill, ailing, unwell, unhealthy, sickly, delicate; indisposed, laid up, bedridden, infirm, valetudinarian, confined, shut-in; hurt, afflicted, injured, lame, disabled, crippled; not up to snuff, Inf. out of sorts, Inf. under the weather, on the sick list, Inf. down with the bug, Sl. off one's feed. See also sickly(def. 2).
2. nauseated, queasy, Sl. barfy, sick to one's stomach, squeamish, qualmish, Inf. green around the gills; seasick, airsick, carsick.
3. sorrowful, grieving, suffering; troubled, miserable, wretched, heavy-laden, burdened, stricken; heartsick, heart-broken, sick at heart, pining, languishing.
4. shocked, repelled, offended, disturbed, revolted, appalled; upset, perturbed, annoyed, put out.
5.Often sick of
tired, sick and tired, glutted, sated, cloyed, jaded, surfeited, satiated; Inf. fed up, Inf. fed or had it up to here.
6. deranged, mentally unsound, psychotic, severely neurotic, unbalanced, disturbed.
7. gruesome, sadistic, ghoulish, morbid; macabre, grotesque; frightful, shocking, repulsive; strange, bizarre, odd.
8.Informal. disgusted, chagrined, annoyed, Inf. put out, Sl. turned off.

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