sick

Adjective

• shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  • 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
    

• deeply affected by a strong feeling
  • sat completely still, sick with envy
    
  • she was sick with longing
    

• (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
  • 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
    

• having a strong distaste from surfeit
  • 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
    

• affected with madness or insanity
  • a man who had gone mad
    

• feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

• affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
  • ill from the monotony of his suffering
    

Noun

• people who are sick
  • they devote their lives to caring for the sick
    

Verb

• eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
  • After drinking too much, the students vomited
    
  • He purged continuously
    
  • The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ghastly , grim , grisly , gruesome , macabre , pale , pallid , wan , disgusted , fed up(p) , sick(p) , sick of(p) , tired of(p) , brainsick , crazy , demented , disturbed , mad , unbalanced , unhinged , nauseated , nauseous , queasy , sickish , ill , vomit , vomit up , purge , cast , cat , be sick , disgorge , regorge