Sick adj. (compar. sicker; superl. sickest) 1.Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. "Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever." "Behold them that are sick with famine." 2.Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
3.Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; with of; as, to be sick of flattery. "He was not so sick of his master as of his work."
4.Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. "So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings."
Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital.
Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick.
Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.
Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea.
Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick.
Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. Note: (These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.)
Synonyms: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.
