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Synonyms for sick

Synonyms for sick: disgusted and ill. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for sick

Interchangeable with sick in this sense

Audited under sick's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one sick carries in that sense.

disgustedadjective, in the sense "having a strong distaste from surfeit"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name sick as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

illill is an adjective in the sense "affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function"

one of these comes from sick's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

having a strong distaste from surfeit

Sick of it all.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

disgusted

Same sentence, swapped: Disgusted of it all.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

mad
ill
strange

Where sick turns up in the game

sick is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where sick is the trap

madadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is sore, in the sense "roused to anger", and sick is on the board beside it.
dispiritedadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is listless, in the sense "marked by low spirits", with sick sitting one tile away.

Play sick

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sick reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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