资料来源 : pyDict
病弱的,阴沈的,无精打采的成苍白色使现病容
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Sickly \Sick"ly\, a. [Compar. {Sicklier}; superl. {Sickliest}.]
1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease;
as, a sickly body.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. --Shak.
2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a
sickly climate. --Cowper.
3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. --Dryden.
Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. --Keble.
4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell;
sickly sentimentality.
Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless;
weak; feeble; languid; faint.
Sickly \Sick"ly\, adv.
In a sick manner or condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
--Chaucer.
Sickly \Sick"ly\, v. t.
To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in
the past participle. [R.]
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. --Shak.
Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying
heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to
subside. --Jeffrey.
资料来源 : WordNet®
sickly
adj 1: unhealthy looking [syn: {sallow}]
2: 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" [syn: {ailing}, {indisposed},
{peaked(p)}, {poorly(p)}, {unwell}, {under the weather}]
[also: {sickliest}, {sicklier}]