English-Spanish translations for sickly

• enfermizo
• enclenque
• achacoso
• calamitoso
• débil
• dulzón
• empalagoso
• enteco
• triste
• valetudinario

Definition of sickly

• Frequently ill or in poor health
• Not in good health; sick
• ''of a plant'') Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth
• Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness
• Shedding a relatively small amount of light; not very bright
• Lacking intensity or vigour
• Associated with poor moral or mental well-being
• Tending to produce nausea
• Overly sweet
• Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (''of a period of time''
• Tending to produce disease or poor health
• To make sickly
• To become sickly
• In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness

Examples

• a sickly child
• a sickly pallor
• a sickly smile
• a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality
• a sickly autumn; a sickly climate
• sickly pale; to cough sickly

Related words

• sickle
• sickliness
• sicklepod
• sicklebill
• sicklemia
• moonsickle
• Sicklinghall
• Sickle-winged Guan
• Sickle-winged Nightjar