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Textual thesaurus for "sick"

(adj) gruesome, grim, grisly, ghastly, macabre

shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

ghastly wounds; the grim aftermath of the bombing; the grim task of burying the victims; a grisly murder; gruesome evidence of human sacrifice; macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages; macabre tortures conceived by madmen


(adj) disgusted, tired of, sick of, fed up

having a strong distaste from surfeit

grew more and more disgusted; fed up with their complaints; sick of it all; sick to death of flattery; gossip that makes one sick; tired of the noise and smoke


(adj) disturbed, demented, crazy, mad, unbalanced, unhinged, brainsick

affected with madness or insanity

a man who had gone mad


(adj) pale, pallid, wan

(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

the pale light of a half moon; a pale sun; the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street; a pallid sky; the pale (or wan) stars; the wan light of dawn


(adj) ill

affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

ill from the monotony of his suffering


(adj) nauseated, nauseous, sickish, queasy

feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit


(verb) upchuck, vomit, vomit up, retch, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, cast, cat, chuck, spew, spue, throw up, barf, be sick, disgorge, honk

eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

After drinking too much, the students vomited; He purged continuously; The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night