Usually means: Frequently ill; weak; poor health.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word sickly:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. sickly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sickly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sickly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sickly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sickly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sickly, sickly: Wordnik
  7. sickly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sickly: Wiktionary
  9. sickly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sickly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sickly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sickly: Dictionary.com
  13. sickly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Sickly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sickly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sickly: Rhymezone
  17. Sickly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sickly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. sickly: Free Dictionary
  20. sickly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. sickly: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. sickly: Legal dictionary

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  1. sickly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sickly: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Frequently ill or in poor health; weakly.
adjective:  Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.
adjective:  Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth. (of a plant)
adjective:  Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.
adjective:  Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (of light) not very bright.
adjective:  Lacking intensity or vigour.
adjective:  Associated with poor moral or mental well-being.
adjective:  Tending to produce nausea.
adjective:  Overly sweet.
adjective:  (obsolete) Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (of a period of time).
adjective:  (obsolete) Tending to produce disease or poor health.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, literary) To make (something) sickly.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) To become sickly.
adverb:  In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness.

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