Sick - Definition

adj 1: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental
function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" [syn:
ill, sick] [ant: well]
2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated,
nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]
3: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
[syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad,
sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
4: having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more
disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all";
"sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick";
"tired of the noise and smoke" [syn: disgusted, fed
up(p), sick(p), sick of(p), tired of(p)]
5: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble;
"the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late
afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale
oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan)
stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid,
wan, sick]
6: deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still,
sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
7: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds";
"the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of
burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence
of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the
Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn:
ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick]
n 1: people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for
the sick"
v 1: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave
him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch,
puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk,
regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]