sickly

动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make (something) sickly. archaic,literary,transitive
    — Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
  2. To become sickly. intransitive,rare
    — 1889, Samuel Cox, An Expositor’s Notebook, London: Richard D. Dickinson, 7th edition, Chapter 26, p. 364, But the seven most prominent Apostles […] still hang together, their hearts tormented with eager yet sad questionings, their hopes fast sicklying over with the pale hues of doubt.
形容词 adj.
  1. Frequently ill or in poor health; weakly.
    — a sickly child
  2. Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.
    — Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well, For he went sickly forth:
  3. Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth. (of a plant)
    — [...] the good wheat on this land had turned sickly and yellow.
  4. Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.
    — a sickly pallor
  5. Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (of light) not very bright.
    — The Moon grows sickly at the sight of day.
  6. Lacking intensity or vigour.
    — a sickly smile
  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.
  8. Tending to produce nausea.
    — a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality
  9. Overly sweet.
    — […] he was again tasting the sickly welter of melted ice cream on his plate.
  10. Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (of a period of time). obsolete
    — This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
  11. Tending to produce disease or poor health. obsolete
    — a sickly autumn; a sickly climate
副词 adv.
  1. In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness.
    — sickly pale; to cough sickly

词形变化

sicklier comparative sickliest superlative sicklies present,singular,third-person sicklying participle,present sicklied participle,past sicklied past more sickly comparative most sickly superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
sicklify sicklily sickliness unsickly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English seekly, sekely, siklich, sekeliche, equivalent to sick + -ly. Possibly a modification of Old English sīcle (“sickly”) and/or derived from Old Norse sjúkligr (“sickly”). Cognate with Dutch ziekelijk, Middle High German siechlich, Danish sygelig, Swedish sjuklig, Icelandic sjúklegur. The verb is from the adjective.
词源 2
From sick + -ly.
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