English Dictionary

sickly

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsɪkli/

形容詞

植物 廃用

Frequently ill or in poor health. / Not in good health; (somewhat) sick. / (of a plant) Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth. / Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.

日本語の意味

頻繁に病気になり、健康状態が悪い / 健康状態が良くなく、やや体調を崩している / 植物の場合、成長が悪く不健康な状態である / 外見が病的に見える、不健康な印象を与える

The sickly child watched the other kids play through the window, longing to join them.

病弱な子どもは窓越しに他の子どもたちが遊ぶのを見て、参加したいと切望していた。

意味（1）

Frequently ill or in poor health.

a sickly child

意味（2）

Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.

Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well, For he went sickly forth:

意味（3）

(of a plant) Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth.

… the good wheat on this land had turned sickly and yellow.

意味（4）

Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.

a sickly pallor

意味（5）

Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (of light) not very bright.

The Moon grows sickly at the sight of day.

意味（6）

Lacking intensity or vigour.

a sickly smile

意味（7）

Associated with poor moral or mental well-being.

The slightest distress, whether real or fictitious, touched him to the quick, and his soul laboured under a sickly sensibility of the miseries of others.

意味（8）

Tending to produce nausea.

a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality

意味（9）

Overly sweet.

[…] he was again tasting the sickly welter of melted ice cream on his plate.

意味（10）

(obsolete) Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (of a period of time).

This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.

意味（11）

(obsolete) Tending to produce disease or poor health.

a sickly autumn; a sickly climate

sicklier （ comparative ）

sickliest （ superlative ）