| sickly | | |
| adj. | 1. sallow, sickly | unhealthy looking. |
| ~ unhealthy | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind.; "unhealthy ulcers" |
| adj. | 2. ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell | somewhat ill or prone to illness.; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" |
| ~ ill, sick | affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" |
| invalid | | |
| n. (person) | 1. invalid, shut-in | someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury. |
| ~ homebound | people who are confined to their homes. |
| ~ diseased person, sick person, sufferer | a person suffering from an illness. |
| v. (social) | 2. invalid | force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen. |
| ~ remove | remove from a position or an office. |
| v. (body) | 3. disable, handicap, incapacitate, invalid | injure permanently.; "He was disabled in a car accident" |
| ~ injure, wound | cause injuries or bodily harm to. |
| ~ hock | disable by cutting the hock. |
| adj. | 4. invalid | having no cogency or legal force.; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license" |
| ~ illegitimate | of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful. |
| ~ uncollectible, bad | not capable of being collected.; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt" |
| ~ fallacious, unsound | containing or based on a fallacy.; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument" |
| ~ false | erroneous and usually accidental.; "a false start"; "a false alarm" |
| ~ invalidated, nullified | deprived of legal force. |
| ~ null, void | lacking any legal or binding force.; "null and void" |
| ~ sophistical, sophistic | plausible but misleading. |
| adj. | 5. invalid | no longer valid.; "the license is invalid" |
| ~ expired | having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time.; "an expired passport"; "caught driving with an expired license" |
| feelings | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. feelings | emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity).; "the remark hurt his feelings" |
| ~ sensitiveness, sensitivity | sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others). |
| sensitivity | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation.; "sensitivity to pain" |
| ~ sensory faculty, sentiency, sentience, sense, sensation | the faculty through which the external world is apprehended.; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing" |
| ~ acuteness | a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed.; "dogs have a remarkable acuteness of smell" |
| ~ hypersensitivity | extreme sensitivity. |
| ~ reactivity, responsiveness | responsive to stimulation. |
| ~ exteroception | sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body. |
| ~ interoception | sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body. |
| ~ photosensitivity, radiosensitivity | sensitivity to the action of radiant energy. |
| ~ physiology | the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. sensitiveness, sensitivity | the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences.; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"; "the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth" |
| ~ physical property | any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions. |
| ~ frequency response | (electronics) a curve representing the output-to-input ratio of a transducer as a function of frequency. |
| n. (feeling) | 3. sensitiveness, sensitivity | sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others). |
| ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
| ~ oversensitiveness | sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset. |
| ~ sensibility | refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions.; "cruelty offended his sensibility" |
| ~ feelings | emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity).; "the remark hurt his feelings" |
| n. (state) | 4. predisposition, sensitivity | susceptibility to a pathogen. |
| ~ susceptibility, susceptibleness | the state of being susceptible; easily affected. |
| ~ habitus | person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease).; "the consumptive habitus" |
| ~ sensitisation, sensitization | the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen). |
| ~ hypersensitivity | pathological sensitivity. |
| ~ diathesis | constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality. |
| n. (attribute) | 5. sensitiveness, sensitivity | the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment. |
| ~ antenna, feeler | sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ.; "he had a special antenna for public relations" |
| ~ defensiveness | excessive sensitivity to criticism.; "his defensiveness was manifested in hurt silence"; "the fear of being sued for malpractice has magnified physicians' defensiveness" |
| ~ perceptiveness | the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding. |
| ~ ability | the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment. |
| hear | | |
| v. (perception) | 1. hear | perceive (sound) via the auditory sense. |
| ~ perceive, comprehend | to become aware of through the senses.; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" |
| ~ overhear, take in, catch | hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers.; "We overheard the conversation at the next table" |
| ~ catch, get | perceive by hearing.; "I didn't catch your name"; "She didn't get his name when they met the first time" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see | get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted" |
| ~ get the goods | discover some bad or hidden information about.; "She got the goods on her co-worker after reading his e-mail" |
| ~ wise up | get wise to.; "They wised up to it" |
| ~ trip up, catch | detect a blunder or misstep.; "The reporter tripped up the senator" |
| ~ ascertain | learn or discover with certainty. |
| ~ discover, find | make a discovery.; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" |
| ~ witness, see, find | perceive or be contemporaneous with.; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" |
| v. (social) | 3. hear, try | examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process.; "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California" |
| ~ probe, examine | question or examine thoroughly and closely. |
| ~ rehear, retry | hear or try a court case anew. |
| v. (perception) | 4. hear | receive a communication from someone.; "We heard nothing from our son for five years" |
| ~ receive, pick up | register (perceptual input).; "pick up a signal" |
| v. (perception) | 5. hear, listen, take heed | listen and pay attention.; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision" |
| ~ focus, pore, rivet, center, centre, concentrate | direct one's attention on something.; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies" |
| ~ incline | bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well.; "He inclined his ear to the wise old man" |
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