sicker

¹

[ sik-er ]

adjective

1. comparative of sick ¹.

sicker

²

or sik·er

[ sik-er ]

adjective

1. safe from danger; secure.
2. dependable; trustworthy.

adverb

1. certainly; without doubt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sicker¹

before 900; Middle English siker, Old English sicor; cognate with Dutch zeker, German sicher, all ≪ Latin sēcūrus; secure

Example Sentences

Seven vaccinated people who ended up sicker than they expected shared their stories and said they did not want to cast doubt on vaccines — because they believe their outcome would have been much worse had they not been inoculated.

From Washington Post

Possibilities include a sicker patient population and less effective care, Goodman said.

From ProPublica

Americans are sicker and taking more pills than ever, and our doctors are miserable.

From The Daily Beast

So instead of better care and cheaper care, satisfaction scoring is making patients sicker and driving up costs.

From The Daily Beast

The new insurance system relies on young, healthy consumers to help share the risk with older, sicker ones.

From The Daily Beast

Putting younger workers in the same plans forces them to subsidize the sicker and older.

From The Daily Beast

And, as predicted by numerous professionals, they are sicker and more dangerous than when they went behind bars.

From The Daily Beast

How, then, do you not recognize one whose heart is sicker than your own?

From Project Gutenberg

The longer she rode the sicker she felt and the more appalled and ashamed and frightened she grew.

From Project Gutenberg

But a man gets sick of working with punks and cheap hoods; he gets sicker of killing off a planet he's learned to like.

From Project Gutenberg

The more I thought of it, the sicker I became, and now what was I to do?

From Project Gutenberg

Fellows, I have never been sicker than I was at that moment, but once.

From Project Gutenberg