Category: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 Sick"ly, adv.

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

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.