Sickly

a.	1.	Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. - Shak.
	2.	Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
	3.	Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. - Dryden. Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. - Keble.
	4.	Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
adv.	1.	In a sick manner or condition; ill. My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. - Chaucer.
v. t.	1.	To make sick or sickly; - with over, and probably only in the past participle. Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. - Shak. Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. - Jeffrey.

Adj.	1.	sickly - unhealthy looking Synonyms: sallow
	2.	sickly - somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, under the weather, unwell

achromatic, achromic, ailing, anemic, ashen, ashy, bled white, bloodless, cachectic, cadaverous, chloranemic, cloying, colorless, cranky, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated, delicate, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, diseased, donsie, down, drained, drawn, dull, enervated, etiolated, exhausted, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, failing, faint, fallow, feeble, flat, frail, ghastly, gray, haggard, healthless, hueless, hypochromic, in poor health, indisposed, infirm, insalubrious, insipid, invalid, lackluster, languishing, leaden, livid, low, lurid, lusterless, mat, maudlin, mawkish, mealy, mean, moribund, morose, muddy, mushy, neutral, noisome, noxious, off-color, offish, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaking, peaky, pimping, poorly, puny, reduced, reduced in health, run-down, sallow, sick, sickish, tallow-faced, toneless, uncolored, unhealthful, unhealthy, unsound, valetudinarian, valetudinary, wan, washed-out, watery, waxen, weak, weakened, weakly, whey-faced, white, with low resistance

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