sick

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Meaning

1. 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.
6. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
7. In poor condition.
8. Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.

be ill

sick person

sick of

spue

vomit up

feel sick

seriously ill

tired of

become ill

feel unwell

get ill

have a fever

not well

suffer pain

sick headache

dead animal

have pain

become sick

to be unwell

very sick

have fever

I am sick

in pain

in poor health

old person

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɪk/

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”).