Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sickliest"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.


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