Bilious vs Sickly - What's the difference?
bilious | sickly |
Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, thus making one ill-natured.
Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
Irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
* Macaulay
Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.
Having the appearance of sickness or ill health; appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; pale.
* Dryden
Weak; faint; suggesting unhappiness.
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease.
* Shakespeare
Tending to produce disease.
Tending to produce nausea; sickening.
To make sickly.
* Shakespeare
* 1840 , S. M. Heaton, George Heaton, Thoughts on the Litany, by a naval officer's orphan daughter (page 58)
* 1871 , Gail Hamilton, Country living and country thinking (page 109)
In a sick manner.
* 2010 , Rowan Somerville, The End of Sleep (page 66)
As adjectives the difference between bilious and sickly
is that bilious is suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, thus making one ill-natured while sickly is frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.As a verb sickly is
to make sickly.As an adverb sickly is
in a sick manner.bilious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a bilious old nabob
sickly
English
Adjective
(er)- a sickly child
- a sickly plant
- The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.
- a sickly smile
- This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
- a sickly''' autumn; a '''sickly climate
- (Cowper)
- a sickly''' smell; '''sickly sentimentality
Verb
- Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
- He evidently thinks the sweet little innocents never heard or thought of such a thing before, and would go on burying their curly heads in books, and sicklying their rosy faces with "the pale cast of thought" till the end of time
Adverb
(en adverb)- The creaseless horizontal face of the giant smiled sickly , leering.