Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Affected by or having greensickness; chlorotic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis

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Examples

  • I've gone and fallen in love, like a greensick fool.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • "When you pray for me, dear Essie, in your convent of greensick women, don't forget that your patron saint was kicked from her pedestal by your lover."

    The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

  • “The young one is the miller’s son,” Tom said, looking even more greensick than Isabel felt as he stared at the dead man’s face.

    My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005

  • “The young one is the miller’s son,” Tom said, looking even more greensick than Isabel felt as he stared at the dead man’s face.

    My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005

  • “The young one is the miller’s son,” Tom said, looking even more greensick than Isabel felt as he stared at the dead man’s face.

    My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005

  • Surely some occasion would have turned up before long of selling the greensick minx advantageously to an old lover or a young one; and this might have succeeded too, why should not it? if she had not lockt up a silly young fellow in her heart, whom she loves, as she tells me. "

    The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813

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