Definitions for sickly

sickly sick·ly

Spelling: [sik-lee]
IPA: /ˈsɪk li/

Sickly is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in sickly (ciklsy).

Definitions for sickly

adverb

  1. in a sick or sickly manner.

adjective

  1. not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
  2. of, connected with, or arising from ill health:
  3. marked by the prevalence of ill health, as a region:
  4. causing sickness.
  5. nauseating.
  6. maudlin and insipid; mawkish:
  7. faint or feeble, as light or color.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cover with a sickly hue.

Origin of sickly

1300-50; Middle English siklich, sekly (adj.). See sick1, -ly

Examples for sickly

Seconds later my friend picked me up in front of the truck stop, his face a sickly shade of white.

The face of the latter was a sickly green, the gift of his fright.

It was now autumn, and the most sickly season I had ever known in Peewawkin.

Priest and politician, sickly child and medical miracle, Bob Massie has had about an American of a life as anyone could imagine.

How did your family react to seeing you so skinny and sickly looking?

My second child was a girl; but a poor diminutive, sickly thing.

The boy was sickly: he might be taken from him ere he had made any true acquaintance with him!

Neruda suffered from cancer, and he looked unwell, with a sickly yellow glow.

"He's alive then," exclaimed Anthony, pale in the sickly light.

A hunter comes across a sickly gorilla, too weak to defend itself from the blows of his cleaver.

Word Value for sickly
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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