sickish

Questions about sickish

What does sickish mean?

sickish means "feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit".

How many syllables are in sickish?

sickish has 2 syllables and divides as sic-kish under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sickish?

Close synonyms include nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sickish a common word?

sickish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.