sick

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. (uncommon) In poor health; ill.
2. Having an urge to vomit.
3. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
4. (colloquial) In bad taste.
5. Tired of or annoyed by something [with of].
6. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
7. In poor condition.
8. Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.

Noun

1. (Australia, British, colloquial, uncountable) Vomit.
2. (British, colloquial, uncountable) (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated.

Verb

1. (Australia, British, colloquial) To vomit.
2. (intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.

Verb

Alternative spelling of sic (“set upon”).

Concepts

malade

🤢

malsain

macabre

tomber malade

mal

personne malade

de malade

maladie

être malade

faible

répugnant

effrayant

épouvantable

fondu

fou

funèbre

funeste

gerber

hideux

horrible

infirme

les malades

lugubre

maladif

mauvais

👎

mort

mourir

💀

odieux

pâle

pouah

régobeller

rejeter

rejetter

rendre

repoussant

sinistre

souffrir

vomi

vomir

insane

je suis malade

malades

marre

morbide

souffreteux

vomissure

thanatophile

gothique

très souffrant

aberrant

Opposé de

fit, healthy, well, crap, naff, uncool

Synonymes

ill

🤢

painful

unwell

diseased

ailing

vomit

unhealthy

sickly

patient

puke

infirm

weak

be sick

hurt

queasy

bad

👎

pain

throw up

sore

regurgitate

morbid

sick person

be ill

sickness

barf

fall ill

nauseous

cat

😺

regorge

disgusted

cast

vomit up

feel sick

grim

spue

spew

pallid

thin

mad

frail

macabre

nauseated

indisposed

feeble

fed up

illness

sickish

poorly

sick of

disturbed

Traductions

enfermo

🤢

krank

🤢

ziek

🤢

malato

🤢

ammalato

🤢

doente

🤢

malalt

🤢

άρρωστος

naar

aeger

🤢

enfermo

🤢

aegrotus

🤢

hasta

🤢

αδιάθετος

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɪk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: sik

Hérité de ancien anglais: sēoc

Appartenant à frison occidental: siik

Appartenant à néerlandais: ziek

Appartenant à allemand: siech

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: syk

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: sjuk

Appartenant à danois: syg

Appartenant à moyen irlandais: socht

Appartenant à Classical Armenian: հիւծանիմ

In summary

From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”).
See also West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk sjuk, Danish syg; also Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “I am weakening”).
The "very good, excellent" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "in poor health". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and wicked.

Phrases

As sick as a dog .

Aussi malade qu'un chien.