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sick
adjective as in not healthy, not feeling well
Strong matches
ailing, confined, debilitated, declining, disordered, down, frail, funny, green, hospitalized, ill, impaired, imperfect, incurable, indisposed, infected, invalid, mean, nauseated, peaked, suffering, tottering, wobbly
Weak matches
bedridden, broken down, defective, delicate, diseased, feeble, feverish, in a bad way, in poor health, infirm, laid-up, lousy, not so hot, poorly, qualmish, queasy, rickety, rocky, rotten, run down, sick as a dog, under medication, under the weather, unhealthy, unwell, weak
Example Sentences
Common side effects include feeling sick, vomiting, bloating, constipation and diarrhoea.
And last month, a woman was jailed for five years after lying about her experience and qualifications to get a job as a senior nurse in a unit for sick and premature babies.
Bob Toledo told him that he was destined to join the list of players who had great games while sick.
Extremely sick patients like Patterson require bespoke phage cocktails that perfectly match their microbes, and may even need new phages as the bacteria evolve.
“We don’t want them to do that. But we also don’t want them to feel sick.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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