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Sickly vs Weary - What's the difference?

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Sickly is a related term of weary.


As adjectives the difference between sickly and weary

is that sickly is frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill while weary is having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.

As verbs the difference between sickly and weary

is that sickly is to make sickly while weary is to make or to become weary.

As an adverb sickly

is in a sick manner.

sickly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.
  • a sickly child
  • Having the appearance of sickness or ill health; appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; pale.
  • a sickly plant
  • * Dryden
  • The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.
  • Weak; faint; suggesting unhappiness.
  • a sickly smile
  • Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease.
  • * Shakespeare
  • This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
  • Tending to produce disease.
  • a sickly''' autumn; a '''sickly climate
    (Cowper)
  • Tending to produce nausea; sickening.
  • a sickly''' smell; '''sickly sentimentality

    Verb

  • To make sickly.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
  • * 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)
  • 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)
  • In a sick manner.
  • * 2010 , Rowan Somerville, The End of Sleep (page 66)
  • The creaseless horizontal face of the giant smiled sickly , leering.

    weary

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
  • :
  • *1623 , (William Shakespeare), (As You Like It) , :
  • *:I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary .
  • *(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
  • *:[I] am weary , thinking of your task.
  • *
  • *:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
  • :
  • Expressive of fatigue.
  • :
  • Causing weariness; tiresome.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:weary way
  • *(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • *:There passed a weary time.
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * wearily * weariness * wearisome

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make or to become weary.
  • * Shakespeare (Julius Caesar )
  • So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
  • * Milton
  • I would not cease / To weary him with my assiduous cries.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.

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    See also

    * wary English ergative verbs