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Antonyms for sicker
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : sik-er |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪk ər |
Definition of sicker
Origin :- "to chase, set upon" (as in command sick him!), 1845, dialectal variant of seek. Used as an imperative to incite a dog to attack a person or animal; hence "cause to pursue." Related: Sicked; sicking.
- adj not healthy, not feeling well
- adj morbid, gross
- adj fed up, displeased
- But he never heard any music, and this, instead of calming his nerves, made him sicker.
- Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
- I don't say Ireland is sound, but she is no sicker than she ever was.
- Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II) » by Edmund Downey
- How, then, do you not recognize one whose heart is sicker than your own?
- Extract from : « The Lion's Brood » by Duffield Osborne
- John tells me you were sicker than 283 people usually are at such times.
- Extract from : « The Wind Before the Dawn » by Dell H. Munger
- You shall be sicker yet, if you do not speak to some purpose.
- Extract from : « To Have and To Hold » by Mary Johnston
- And then when it looked as if it would be Marcia Oldham I got sicker.
- Extract from : « The Silver Butterfly » by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
- No sicker than I am of hearing it pour, retorted the first speaker.
- Extract from : « The Eight-Oared Victors » by Lester Chadwick
- I have seen any number of sicker children, and known them to get well.
- Extract from : « The Home at Greylock » by Elizabeth Prentiss
- The more I thought of it, the sicker I became, and now what was I to do?
- Extract from : « From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It » by John Peele
- “I guess I was sicker than I imagined,” he said to himself, as he kept doggedly on.
- Extract from : « Fenn Masterson's Discovery » by Allen Chapman
Synonyms for sicker
- ailing
- bedridden
- black
- blasé
- bored
- broken down
- confined
- debilitated
- declining
- defective
- delicate
- diseased
- disgusted
- disordered
- down
- feeble
- feverish
- frail
- funny
- ghoulish
- green
- hospitalized
- ill
- impaired
- imperfect
- in a bad way
- in poor health
- incurable
- indisposed
- infected
- infirm
- invalid
- jaded
- laid-up
- lousy
- macabre
- mean
- morose
- nauseated
- not so hot
- peaked
- poorly
- qualmish
- queasy
- revolted
- rickety
- rocky
- rotten
- run down
- sadistic
- satiated
- sick as a dog
- sickly
- suffering
- tired
- tottering
- under medication
- under the weather
- unhealthy
- unwell
- up to here with
- weak
- weary
- wobbly
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