Sickly vs Fragile - What's the difference?
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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)
Easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.
Sickly is a related term of fragile.
As adjectives the difference between sickly and fragile
is that sickly is frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill while fragile is easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.As a verb sickly
is to make sickly.As an adverb sickly
is in a sick manner.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.
fragile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.
- The UN tries to maintain the fragile peace process in the region.
- He is a very fragile person and gets easily depressed.