sick and tired

Variant of sick

sick definition

sick (sik)

adjective

  1. suffering from disease or illness; unwell; ill: in this sense, now rare or literary in England
  2. having nausea; vomiting or about to vomit: the predominant sense in England
  3. characteristic of or accompanying sickness a sick expression
  4. of or for sick people sick leave
  5. deeply disturbed or distressed; extremely upset, as by grief, disappointment, disgust, failure, etc.
  6. disgusted by reason of excess; annoyed or exasperated: usually with of sick of such excuses
  7. in poor condition; impaired; unsound
  8. having a great longing or nostalgia (for) sick for the hills
  9. of sickly color; pale
  10. having a discharge of the menses; menstruating
  11. mentally ill or emotionally disturbed
  12. Informal sadistic, morbid, or abnormally unwholesome a sick joke
  13. Agric.
    1. incapable of producing an adequate yield of a certain crop wheatsick soil
    2. infested with harmful microorganisms a sick field

Etymology: ME sik, seke < OE seoc, akin to Ger siech < IE base *seug-, to be troubled or grieved > Arm hiucanim, (I) am weakening

sick Idioms

the sick

sick or ill people collectively

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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