sick of
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Definition
Adjective: * Weary and disgusted due to excess or prolonged experience: Having a strong feeling of dislike, impatience, or aversion because one has had too much of something or has experienced it for too long.
Usage
This adjective describes a state of complete emotional exhaustion and irritation with a situation, activity, or condition. It is used with the preposition "of" or sometimes "with" to indicate the source of the annoyance. * Common structure: to be sick of [something/someone]. * It expresses a stronger feeling than simply "not liking" something; it implies a desire for the thing to stop or go away permanently.
Examples
- After hearing the same excuse for the tenth time, she was utterly sick of it.
- I am sick of this constant rain; I just want to see the sun.
- He claimed to be sick of all the politics in the office.
Advanced Usage
- "sick to death of": An intensified form of "sick of," emphasizing total and absolute intolerance.
- Example: I'm sick to death of your lies.
- "fed up (with)": A very common synonym with identical meaning and usage.
- Example: The residents are fed up with the construction noise.
Variants and Related Words
- Sicken (verb): To cause to feel disgust or revulsion.
- Example: The violence in the film sickened me.
- Sickening (adjective): Causing disgust or loathing.
- Example: It was a sickening display of cruelty.
Synonyms
- Fed up (with)
- Disgusted (with/by)
- Weary (of)
- Tired (of)
- Had enough (of)
Related Idioms
- To be at the end of one's tether/rope: To have no more patience or energy to deal with a difficult situation. This is similar in feeling to "sick of" but focuses on exhausted patience.
- Example: With the baby crying all night, she was at the end of her rope.
Adjective
- having a strong distaste from surfeit
- grew more and more disgusted
- fed up with their complaints
- sick of it all
- sick to death of flattery
- gossip that makes one sick
- tired of the noise and smoke