Anxious vs Sick - What's the difference?
anxious | sick |
Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, especially respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense;—applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious , despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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, title= Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying;—applied to things; as, anxious labor.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares.
Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.
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* (1800-1859)
*:He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform.
In poor health.
* {{quote-book, year=a1420, year_published=1894, author=The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056
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, chapter=7 (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
(colloquial) In bad taste.
Having an urge to vomit.
(slang) Very good, excellent, awesome.
In poor condition.
(agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
Tired of or annoyed by something.
Sick people in general as a group.
(colloquial) vomit.
To vomit.
:I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor.
(obsolete) To fall sick; to sicken.
* circa 1598 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 2 :
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* 1920 , James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"
* 1938 , Eugene Gay-Tifft, translator, The Saga of Frank Dover by Johannes Buchholtz, 2005 Kessinger Publishing edition, ISBN 141915222X, page 125,
* 1957 , , 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,
* 2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman , University of Calgary Press, ISBN 1552380408, page 82,
As adjectives the difference between anxious and sick
is that anxious is full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, especially respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense;—applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle while sick is in poor health.As a noun sick is
sick people in general as a group.As a verb sick is
to vomit or sick can be (rare).anxious
English
(Anxiety) (Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* anctious (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd, passage=But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.}}
Usage notes
* Anxious is followed by for, about, concerning, etc., before the object of solicitude.Synonyms
* careful * concerned * disturbed * restless * solicitous * uneasy * unquiet * watchfulExternal links
* * English refractory feminine rhymessick
English
(wikipedia sick)Etymology 1
Middle English sek, sik, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)citation, chapter=Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone, isbn=1163911380 , publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, location=London, editor=Robert von Fleischhacker , page=63, passage=Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
Synonyms
* (in poor health) ill, not well, poorly (British), sickly, unwell * (mentally unstable) disturbed, twisted, warped. * (having an urge to vomit) nauseated, nauseous * rad, wicked * See alsoAntonyms
* (in poor health) fit, healthy, well * (excellent) crap, naff, uncoolDerived terms
* airsick * be sick * brainsick * carsick * dogsick * fall sick * heartsick * homesick * iron-sick, iron sick, ironsick * junk sick * lovesick * nailsick, nail sick, nailsick * seasick * sick and tired * sick and twisted * sick as a dog * sick bag * sickbay * sickbed * sick building syndrome * sick day * sicken * sickening * sickhouse * sickie * sickish * sick joke * sickly * sickness * sick note * sick pay * sick puppy * sicko * sickout * sickroom * sick to one's stomach * soulsick * thoughtsickNoun
(-)- We have to cure the sick .
- He lay there in a pool of his own sick .
Synonyms
* (vomit) SeeVerb
(en verb)- Our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- "Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick' 'em, Wapi—'''sick''' 'em—'''sick''' 'em—' sick 'em!"
- When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.
- "...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
- Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.