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What is the adjective for sickly?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs sick and sickly which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sick
  1. Having an urge to vomit.
  2. (chiefly US) In poor health.
  3. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
  4. (colloquial) In bad taste.
  5. Tired of or annoyed by something.
  6. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
  7. In poor condition.
  8. (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. ill, unwell, ailing, indisposed, infirm, unhealthy, debilitated, poorly, unsound, diseased, weak, bedridden, crook, disordered, infected, invalid, rickety, declining, feeble, frail, pale, sickened, bad, down, feverish, grim, impaired, incurable, off, peaked, rocky, suffering, tottering, confined, defective, delicate, hospitalised, hospitalized, imperfect, peaky, rundown, stricken, wobbly, wretched, laid up, laid-up, below par, broken down, not healthy, off-colour … more
  10. Examples:
      11. “James was a dedicated family doctor who dedicated his life to looking after those who were sick.”
      “She ran to her bathroom and vomited, hoping to relieve the sick sensation she was feeling.”
      “I am starting to get sick of my mundane job.”
sickly
  1. Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.
  2. Having the appearance of sickness or ill health; appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; pale.
  3. Weak; faint; suggesting unhappiness.
  4. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease.
  5. Tending to produce disease.
  6. Tending to produce nausea; sickening.
  7. Overly sweet.
  8. Synonyms:
      9. ill, unwell, ailing, infirm, indisposed, weak, poorly, frail, unhealthy, feeble, delicate, peaked, diseased, faint, weakly, invalid, sickish, low, lackluster, lacklustre, below par, run-down, in poor health, off-colour, off-color, out of action, always ill, chronically ill, laid-low, often ill, out of shape, sick, debilitated, unsound, bedridden, enfeebled, crook, bad, sickened, under the weather, peaky, valetudinarian, down, weakened, laid low, enervated, decrepit, sapped, incapacitated, punk … more
  9. Examples:
      10. “During the 19th century, it had a reputation in Britain as a restorative food for invalids and sickly children and was added to their diet in various forms.”
      “Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and sickly sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality.”
      “He was again tasting the sickly welter of melted ice cream on his plate.”
sickish
  1. Somewhat sick, but not seriously so.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. nauseous, sick, queasy, ill, nauseated, qualmish, queazy, squeamish, unwell, queerish, queer, poorly, out of sorts, bilious, seasick, green about the gills, crook, dizzy, bad, woozy, carsick, airsick, green, lousy, funny, rotten, barfy, travel-sick, green at the gills, about to throw up, indisposed, sickly, peaky, liverish, rough, off, giddy, peculiar, upset, terrible, unsettled, awful, dreadful, peakish, groggy, pukish, under the weather, off colour, sick as dog, suffering from motion sickness … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I do not care for the Petunia close at hand on account of its sickish odor.”
      “I have to now face the fact that I, who am rarely sick, have been sickish for a week now, mostly with coughing phlegmy runny nose-and-eyes ick.”
      “Rising gradually to her feet, those sickish green eyes met the Captain's level, immediately locking on to those specks of electric blue.”
sicky
  1. (informal) sick; vomiting
sickless
  1. (obsolete) Free from sickness.
sicke
  1. Obsolete spelling of sick
sicklier
  1. comparative form of sickly: more sickly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. infirmer, weaker, frailer, unhealthier, feebler, fainter, weaklier, lower, more ill, more unwell, more ailing, more indisposed, more delicate, more peaked, more diseased, more invalid, more sickish, more lackluster, more lacklustre, more off-color, tenderer, fragiler, more weakened, more enervated, slighter, more languid, more effete, more wimpish, more asthenic, more wasted, more unsubstantial, sicker, more decrepit, wimpier, lamer, more unsound, shakier, punier, more strengthless, more incapacitated, softer, tremblier, more doddery, more softened, more exhausted, more helpless, more tottery, more sensitive, more crook, more sapless … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The sickly 69-year-old leader and his even sicklier comrade Nuon Chea were brought back to Anlong Veng on stretchers.”
      “Hot Rod and the Tories Brinkmanship ReprintsOn the more usual definition, however, the economy looks sicklier than this.”
      “Mr Yushchenko and Ms Tymoshenko are expected to contest a presidential election in the coming year, and both are playing politics while the sickly economy gets sicklier.”
sickliest
  1. superlative form of sickly: most sickly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. infirmest, weakest, frailest, unhealthiest, feeblest, faintest, weakliest, lowest, most ill, most unwell, most ailing, most indisposed, most delicate, most peaked, most diseased, most invalid, most sickish, most lackluster, most lacklustre, most off-color, tenderest, fragilest, most weakened, most enervated, slightest, most languid, most effete, most wimpish, most asthenic, most wasted, most unsubstantial, sickest, most decrepit, wimpiest, lamest, most unsound, shakiest, puniest, most strengthless, most incapacitated, softest, trembliest, most doddery, most softened, most exhausted, most helpless, most tottery, most sensitive, most crook, most sapless … more
sickest
  1. superlative form of sick: most sick
  2. Synonyms:
      3. infirmest, unhealthiest, weakest, ricketiest, feeblest, frailest, palest, baddest, grimmest, rockiest, peakiest, wobbliest, wretchedest, most ill, most unwell, most ailing, most indisposed, most unsound, most diseased, most bedridden, most crook, most disordered, most infected, most invalid, most sickened, most feverish, most off, most peaked, most tottering, most defective, most delicate, most imperfect, most stricken, most laid up, most off-color, most out of sorts, queasiest, queaziest, dizziest, greenest, queerest, funniest, lousiest, meanest, punkest, rottenest, most nauseous, most nauseated, most bilious … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “A nationwide shortage of intensive-care specialists has left hospitals scrambling to provide timely care to the sickest of patients.”
      “Though tourism booms in Hawaii, for example, aboriginal Hawaiians rank among the poorest and sickest inhabitants on the island.”
      “Harried health workers picked through the impatient crowd, sorting out the sickest children.”
sicked
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sick
sicking
  1. present participle of sick
sicklied
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sickly
sicklying
  1. present participle of sickly
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