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sicklier |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sickly \Sick"ly\, a. [Compar. {Sicklier}; superl. {Sickliest}.] 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. --Cowper. 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. Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
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