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sick
adjective as in not healthy, not feeling well
Strong matches
ailing, confined, debilitated, declining, disordered, down, frail, funny, green, hospitalized, ill, impaired, imperfect, incurable, indisposed, infected, invalid, mean, nauseated, peaked, suffering, tottering, wobbly
Weak matches
bedridden, broken down, defective, delicate, diseased, feeble, feverish, in a bad way, in poor health, infirm, laid-up, lousy, not so hot, poorly, qualmish, queasy, rickety, rocky, rotten, run down, sick as a dog, under medication, under the weather, unhealthy, unwell, weak
Example Sentences
Most of the building's residents were sick and bedridden elderly people.
PBMs have perverse incentives to discriminate against the sick in favor of the healthy.
Views that a dozen years ago were rightly considered sick and bizarre some now hope to bring into the mainstream.
Proteus doesn’t call in sick, doesn’t file workers’ comp and doesn’t require bathroom breaks.
An open question is how quickly all air-traffic controllers will get back to work, after some called in sick because they weren’t getting paid.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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