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

1. 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