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| Main Entry: | sick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not healthy, not feeling well |
| Synonyms: | ailing, bedridden, confined, debilitated, defective, delicate, diseased, disordered, down, feeble, feverish, frail, funny*, green*, ill, impaired, imperfect, incurable, indisposed, infirm, invalid, lousy, mean, nauseated, peaked, poorly, queasy, rickety, rocky, rotten, run down, suffering, under the weather*, unhealthy, unwell, weak, wobbly, broken down, declining, hospitalized, in a bad way, in poor health, infected, laid-up, not so hot, qualmish, sick as a dog, tottering, under medication |
| Antonyms: | healthy, well, undiseased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | morbid, gross |
| Synonyms: | black, ghoulish, macabre, morose, sadistic, sickly |
| Antonyms: | clean, gentle, moral, nice |
| Main Entry: | sick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fed up, displeased |
| Synonyms: | blasé, bored, disgusted, jaded, tired, weary, revolted, satiated, up to here with |
| Antonyms: | content, happy, pleased, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | ailing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not feeling well |
| Synonyms: | below par, debilitated, diseased, down, feeble, ill, indisposed, rocky*, run down*, sick, sickly, under the weather*, unwell, weak, down with, enfeebled, feeling awful, sick as a dog, wasting |
| Antonyms: | healthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amiss |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; defective |
| Synonyms: | awry, bad, confused, crooked, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, foul, haywire, imperfect, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, incorrect, mistaken, out of order, sick, unfair, unlawful, unsuitable, untoward, flawed, glitched up |
| Antonyms: | good, right |
| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
| Synonyms: | ashen, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathly, emaciated, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, sallow, shadowy, sick, spectral, thin, wan, wasted, bag of bones, deathlike, exsanguinous, peaky, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones |
| Antonyms: | flushed, lifelike, lively |
| Main Entry: | confined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | limited, enclosed |
| Synonyms: | bedridden, bound, cramp, cramped, held, imprisoned, indisposed, jailed, restrained, restricted, sick, bedfast, bottled up, chilled, circumscribed, compassed, cooped up, detained, flattened out, grounded, hampered, hog-tied, iced, immured, in chains, in jail, incarcerated, incommodious, invalided, laid up, locked up, on ice, pent, sealed up, shut in |
| Antonyms: | free, unlimited, liberated |
| Main Entry: | defective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken, not working |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, amiss, damaged, deficient, faulty, impaired, imperfect, inadequate, incomplete, injured, insufficient, lacking, out of order, poor, sick, unfinished, unhealthy, unsound, wanting, blemished, flawed, on the bum, seconds, subnormal |
| Notes: | defective means having a defect or fault, while deficient means inadequate or lacking in amount or degree |
| Antonyms: | excellent, faultless, flawless, perfect, unbroken |
| Main Entry: | diseased |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhealthy |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, ailing, indisposed, infectious, infirm, rotten, sick, sickly, tainted, unsound, unwell, unwholesome, infected |
| Antonyms: | fit, healthy |
| Main Entry: | disgusted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickened; offended |
| Synonyms: | displeased, fastidious, fed up*, nauseated, nauseous, overwrought, queasy, sick, squeamish, tired, unhappy, weary, abhorred, appalled, full up, grossed out, had bellyful, had enough, had it, outraged, repelled, repulsed, revolted, satiated, scandalized, sick and tired of, sick of, teed off, turned off, up to here |
| Antonyms: | delighted, desirous, happy, pleased, attracted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dysfunctional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | socially impaired |
| Synonyms: | broken, debilitated, decayed, defective, deteriorated, inhibited, maladjusted, sick, unfit, wounded, flawed, malfunctional, undermined |
| Main Entry: | faulty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not working; incorrect |
| Synonyms: | adulterated, amiss, awry, bad, below par, blamable, broken, cracked, damaged, debased, defective, deficient, distorted, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, false, frail, impaired, imperfect, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inexact, injured, insufficient, invalid, lame, leaky, lemon, maimed, malformed, out of order, rank, sick, tainted, unfit, unreliable, unsound, weak, wrong, blemished, botched, flawed, imprecise, malfunctioning, marred, unretentive, warped |
| Antonyms: | accurate, correct, perfect, sound, strong, working |
| Main Entry: | grisly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, awful, bloody, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, frightful, ghastly, grim, gross*, gruesome, hideous, horrible, lurid, macabre, sanguine, shocking, sick, sickening, terrible, terrifying, yucky*, blood-stained, grody, horrid |
| Antonyms: | nice, pleasing, pretty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gruesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible, awful |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, hideous, loathsome, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, shocking, sick*, spine-tingling*, terrible, terrifying, ugly, weird*, daunting, grody, horrendous, horrid, horrific, horrifying |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, pleasant, pretty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hideous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grotesque, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abominable, animal, appalling, awful, beast, bestial, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, gruesome, hateful, loathsome, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nasty, odious, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sick, sickening, terrible, terrifying, ugly, unsightly, weird, horrendous, horrid, uncomely |
| Antonyms: | attractive, beautiful, charming, delightful, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imperfect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flawed |
| Synonyms: | amiss, below par, broken, damaged, defective, deficient, dud*, faulty, garbage*, immature, impaired, incomplete, inexact, injured, junk*, lemon*, limited, low, minus, partial, patchy, rudimentary, sick, sketchy, two-bit*, undeveloped, unfinished, unsound, vicious, bottom-of-barrel, disfigured, few bugs, marred, schlocky, warped |
| Antonyms: | excellent, faultless, finished, perfect, pure, unblemished, unflawed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mangy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scruffy |
| Synonyms: | decrepit, dirty, impoverished, indigent, mean, moth-eaten*, poor, shabby, shoddy, sick, sleazy*, squalid, tattered, ragtag |
| Antonyms: | neat, kempt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | morbid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, nasty, sickly |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, ailing, dark, deadly, depressed, despondent, diseased, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, irascible, macabre, malignant, melancholy, monstrous, moody, pessimistic, saturnine, sick, somber, sullen, unhealthy, unnatural, unsound, unusual, unwholesome, brooding, horrid, infected |
| 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*, sick, sickening, squeamish, seasick, sick as dog |
| Antonyms: | nice, pleasing, soothing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in color or effect |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, blanched, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, dim, 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, weak, white, ashy, bleached, deathlike, doughy, waxlike, whitish |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, glowing, radiant |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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