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sick man

sick man noun: a weak member of a peer group, especially the weakest.

Noun

sick man (plural sick men)

  1. (idiomatic, usually, with-of) A weak member of a peer group, especially the weakest.
    • The former openly likens Cuba to Turkey, saying that the island is the "sick man" of the West;1854, H.B. Stowe, “America's Ambition and Europe's Dilemma”, in The Living Age, volume 42, page 245
    • The House of Lords has now come to be pretty generally looked upon as the "Sick Man" of the English Constitution.1896, Jesse Macy, The English constitution: a commentary on its nature and growth, page 54
    Synonyms:
    weak sister

sick man meaning in Tamil and Odia

sick man in Tamil

வியாதிக்காரன்

sick man in Odia

a sick man
କାଇଲା kāilā

Synonyms of sick man

Forms of sick man

pluralsick men

Questions about sick man

What does sick man mean?
Sick man means a weak member of a peer group, especially the weakest.
What is sick man in Tamil?
Sick man in Tamil is வியாதிக்காரன். See Sick man meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sick man?
Sick man is a noun.
What is the plural of sick man?
The plural of sick man is sick men.

Words near sick man in the dictionary

  1. sick jokes
  2. sick leave
  3. sick list
  4. sick lists
  5. sick lit
  6. sick man
  7. sick man of Asia
  8. sick man of East Asia
  9. sick man of Europe
  10. sick men
  11. sick note

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sick man (page history and authors); sick man (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); କାଇଲା (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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