Read full poem →_ "Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be?
You may be good for something, but you are not good for me.
Dictionary Entry
Feeling ill or unwell; nauseous. Also used informally to describe something that is very good or impressive.
In a Sentence
“After eating too much candy, the child felt sick and had to lie down, but later he thought the concert was sick.”
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Origin
Old English 'sēoc', of Germanic origin.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “sick”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The knot that makes one flesh of two,
Sick with hatred, sick with pain,
Strangling-When shall we be slain?
Read full poem →From the arsenals of hell;
And beside him, sick and white,
Sin to left and Death to right
Read full poem →If truth in hearts that perish. . .
Oh, sick I am to see you ° . .
On the idle hill of summer . . .
Read full poem →And in soft silence shed the kindly shower!
The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid,
From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade.
Read full poem →Here Rage enchained reluctant raves, and there
Pale Envy dumb, and sick'ning with despair;
Prone to the earth she bends her loathing eye,
Read full poem →As one by one, at dread Medea's strain,
The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain; 10
As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest,
Read full poem →And lovers' hearts with ends of ribbon bound,
The courtier's promises, and sick man's prayers,
The smiles of harlots, and the tears of heirs,
Read full poem →Grind on the wakeful ear in the hush of the moonless nights,
While another is cheating the sick of a few last gasps, as he sits
To pestle a poison'd poison behind his crimson lights.
Read full poem →In wassail ; often, like as many girls—
Sick for the hollies and the yews of home— 185
As many little trifling Lilias—play’d