English Online Dictionary. What means sick? What does sick mean?
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sĭk, IPA(key): /sɪk/
- Rhymes: -ɪk
- Homophones: sic, Sikh
Etymology 1
From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”).
See also West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk sjuk, Danish syg; also Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “I am weakening”).
Adjective
sick (comparative sicker, superlative sickest)
- (less common in the UK and Ireland) In poor health; ill.
- Synonyms: ill, not well, poorly, sickly, unwell; see also Thesaurus:diseased
- Antonyms: fit, healthy, well
- Having an urge to vomit.
- Synonyms: nauseated; see also Thesaurus:nauseated
- (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
- Synonyms: disturbed, twisted, warped
- (colloquial) In bad taste.
- Tired of or annoyed by something [with of].
- (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
- Synonyms: rad, wicked; see also Thesaurus:excellent
- Antonyms: crap, naff, uncool
- In poor condition.
- (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
Derived terms
Descendants
- →? Navajo: sxih
Translations
Noun
sick (uncountable)
- (British, Australia, colloquial) Vomit.
- (British, colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated.
Synonyms
- (vomit): See Thesaurus:vomit
Derived terms
- (ill): sickie a day of sick leave, often implying some level of deceit as in "throw a sickie" - take a day's sick leave for some other purpose. go down like a cup of cold sick / go down like a cup of sick
Translations
Verb
sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)
- (British, Australia, colloquial) To vomit.
- (obsolete except in dialect, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.
Derived terms
- sick up
Etymology 2
Variant of sic, itself an alteration of seek.
Verb
sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)
- (rare) Alternative spelling of sic (“set upon”)
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,
- "...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
- 2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman, University of Calgary Press, →ISBN, page 82,
- Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.
Anagrams
- CKIs