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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scruffy |
| Synonyms: | decrepit, dirty, impoverished, indigent, mean, moth-eaten, poor, ragtag, shabby, shoddy, sick, sleazy*, squalid, tattered |
| Antonyms: | kempt, neat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | morbid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, nasty, sickly |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, ailing, brooding, dark, deadly, depressed, despondent, diseased, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrid, infected, irascible, macabre, malignant, melancholy, monstrous, moody, pessimistic, saturnine, sick, somber, sullen, unhealthy, unnatural, unsound, unusual, unwholesome |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, healthy, pleased, sound |
| Main Entry: | nauseous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusting |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, brackish, detestable, distasteful, ill, loathsome, nauseated, nauseating, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rocky, seasick, sick, sick as dog, sickening, squeamish |
| Notes: | nauseated means feeling about to vomit, while nauseous means causing or able to cause nausea |
| Antonyms: | nice, pleasing, soothing |
| Main Entry: | pale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in color or effect |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, deathlike, dim, doughy, dull, faded, faint, feeble, ghastly, gray, haggard, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, insubstantial, livid, lurid, pallid, pasty, poor, sallow, sick, sickly, spectral, thin, unsubstantial, wan, washed-out, waxen, waxlike, weak, white, whitish |
| Notes: | a pail is a bucket while pale means whitish in complexion or very light colored |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, glowing, radiant |
| Main Entry: | palsied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crippled |
| Synonyms: | arthritic, atonic, debilitated, disabled, diseased, helpless, neurasthenic, paralytic, paralyzed, rheumatic, sclerotic, shaking, shaky, sick, spastic, trembling, tremorous, weak |
| Antonyms: | healthy, steady, walking |
| Main Entry: | perverted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, evil |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, aberrant, abnormal, abused, contorted, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, defiled, depraved, deviant, deviating, distorted, foreign, grotesque, impaired, kinky*, misguided, misused, monstrous, outraged, polluted, queer, sick, tainted, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vitiate, vitiated, warped, wicked |
| Antonyms: | clean, good, healthy, moral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poor |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, unfertile |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, depleted, exhausted, feeble, fruitless, impaired, imperfect, impoverished, indisposed, infertile, infirm, puny, sick, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive, worthless |
| Antonyms: | fertile, potent, strong |
| Main Entry: | poorly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not well |
| Synonyms: | ailing, below par, failing, ill, indisposed, low, mean, out of sorts, rotten*, sick, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
| Antonyms: | healthy, well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | psychotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally deranged |
| Synonyms: | certifiable, crazy, demented, distracted, flipped-out, insane, lunatic, mad, manic-depressive, mental, non compos mentis, nuts, off one's rocker, over the edge, psycho, psychopathic, schizophrenic, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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