SICKLY


Meaning of SICKLY in English

sick ‧ ly /ˈsɪkli/ BrE AmE adjective

[ Word Family: noun : ↑ sick , the sick, ↑ sickness , ↑ sicko ; adjective : ↑ sick , ↑ sickening , ↑ sickly ; adverb : ↑ sickeningly , ↑ sickly ; verb : ↑ sicken ]

1 . a sickly person or animal is weak, unhealthy, and often ill:

a sickly child

She looked pale and sickly.

2 . especially British English a sickly smell, taste etc is unpleasant and makes you feel sick:

A sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair.

3 . a sickly colour or light is unpleasantly pale or weak:

The walls were painted a sickly green.

a pale sickly moon

—sickly adverb :

a sickly sweet perfume

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.