sick

Meaning

Adj

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.

Noun

1. (colloquial) Vomit.
2. (colloquial) (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. (colloquial) To vomit.
2. To fall sick; to sicken.

Verb

Alternative spelling of sic (“set upon”)

Concepts

sick

ill

painful

unwell

diseased

ailing

vomit

sickly

unhealthy

infirm

patient

puke

be sick

weak

hurt

bad

queasy

throw up

sore

pain

sick person

morbid

nauseous

barf

regurgitate

fall ill

sickness

be ill

illness

feeble

mad

feel sick

indisposed

nauseated

sickish

poorly

frail

cast

cat

regorge

spew

spue

vomit up

grim

macabre

disgusted

fed up

sick of

pallid

thin

ail

feel unwell

get ill

have a fever

invalid

unwholesome

valetudinarian

not well

chuck

disgorge

honk

purge

retch

upchuck

ghastly

grisly

gruesome

tired of

brainsick

crazy

demented

disturbed

unbalanced

unhinged

pale

wan

become ill

seriously ill

limp

ache

die

immoral

nasty

Sikh

to be unwell

disabled

uneasy

seedy

weakly

stricken

disable

dyspeptic

achy

down

set upon

attack

unhygienic

prostrate

malnourished

feckless

piping

pithless

megrim

migraine

migraine headache

sick headache

very sick

pole

I am sick

get sick

feverish

deformed

dizzy

giddy

melted

ghoulish

badly

funny

haggard

pastelike

waxlike

festering

pus

putrid

rotted

rotten

pervert

perverse

perverted

pathologic

pathological

valetudinary

peaked

unsound

unstable

jaded

old person

gory

infected

sickening

get

dark

somber

suffering

in poor health

emaciated

lean

become

flattened

tongue

sufferer

sicken

faugh

ugh

wow

yuck

in pain

anguish

worry

suffer pain

have fever

have pain

worsen

nurse

dead

death

dies

kill

pass away

become sick

dead animal

skeleton

wasting away

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɪk/

Etymology

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”).