1 often ill/sick:
He was a sickly child.
2 not looking healthy and strong:
She looked pale and sickly. * sickly plants
3 that makes you feel sick, especially because it is too sweet or full of false emotion:
a sickly sweet smell * She gave me a sickly smile.
4 (of colours) unpleasant to look at:
The walls were painted a sickly green colour.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sickly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sickly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sickly is tagged as adjective.
Does sickly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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