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sickly

C1 adj

sickly /ˈsɪkli/ nghĩa là èo uột

Các nghĩa

  1. èo uột

    Frequently ill or in poor health; weakly.

    a sickly child

    [...] the sharp-scented bottle of crystals that sickly Cousin Bertha had carried to ward off fainting spells.

  2. ốm yếu, bệnh hoạn

    Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.

    Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well, For he went sickly forth:

    For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep [i.e. have died].

    Miguel’s temperature was normal that day, though he was still sickly and restless.

  3. còi cọc, èo uột

    Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth. (of a plant)

    [...] the good wheat on this land had turned sickly and yellow.

    With the aid of the marigolds the roses flourished; in the control beds they were sickly and drooping.

  4. trông ốm yếu, xanh xao

    Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.

    a sickly pallor

    Yossarian [...] could not wipe from his mind the excruciating image of the barefoot boy with sickly cheeks [...]

  5. lờ mờ, yếu ớt

    Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (of light) not very bright.

    The Moon grows sickly at the sight of day.

    Night, and all her sickly dews, Her Spectres wan, and Birds of boding cry,

    Mr. Moore haunted his mill, his mill-yard, his dye-house, and his warehouse, till the sickly dawn strengthened into day.

  6. yếu ớt, thiếu sinh khí

    Lacking intensity or vigour.

    a sickly smile

    a sickly winter sun

    [...] my credulous heart [...] fondly loves to cherish The feeble glimmering of a sickly hope.

+ 2 nghĩa khác

  1. bệnh hoạn, đồi bại

    Associated with poor moral or mental well-being.

    These were not the ravings of imbecility, the sickly effusions of distempered brains;

    [...] I know how you came to despise all that sickly Wagnerian idiocy and bombast.

    That he had some sickly compulsion neurosis, they said, was very plain for all eyes to see.

  2. gây buồn nôn

    Tending to produce nausea.

    a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality

    ‘Oh, what is that glides quickly where velvet flowers grow thickly, Their scent comes rich and sickly?’—‘A scaled and hooded worm.’

    […] it warn’t no perfumery neither, not by a long sight. I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things;

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