If you're frequently ill, or often under the weather, you're sickly. A sickly child tends to miss a lot of school.
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease;
Adjective S.
unhealthy looking
Adjective S.
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"
superl.
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with
disease; as, a sickly body.
superl.
Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly
autumn; a sickly climate.
superl.
Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
superl.
Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly
smell; sickly sentimentality.
adv.
In a sick manner or condition; ill.
v. t.
To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only
in the past participle.
Sickly
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.2.
The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.
Nor torrid summer's sickly smile.4.
Sickly
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
Sickly
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside.
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease;
In a sick manner or condition; ill.
To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.
Usage Examples
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
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Other Usage ExamplesI was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.
I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.
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