The difference between Disturbed and Sick

When used as adjectives, disturbed means showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis, whereas sick means having an urge to vomit.


Sick is also noun with the meaning: sick people in general as a group.

Sick is also verb with the meaning: to vomit.

check bellow for the other definitions of Disturbed and Sick

  1. Disturbed as an adjective:

    Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.

  2. Disturbed as an adjective:

    Extremely alarmed; shocked.

  1. Disturbed as a verb:

  1. Sick as an adjective:

    Having an urge to vomit.

  2. Sick as an adjective (chiefly, American):

    In poor health.

    Examples:

    "She was sick all day with the flu."

  3. Sick as an adjective (colloquial):

    Mentally unstable, disturbed.

  4. Sick as an adjective (colloquial):

    In bad taste.

    Examples:

    "That's a sick joke."

  5. Sick as an adjective:

    Tired of or annoyed by something.

    Examples:

    "I've heard that song on the radio so many times that I'm starting to get sick of it."

  6. Sick as an adjective (slang):

    Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.

    Examples:

    "This tune is sick."

    "Dude, this car's got a sick subwoofer!"

  7. Sick as an adjective:

    In poor condition.

    Examples:

    "'sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick'"

  8. Sick as an adjective (agriculture):

    Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.

  1. Sick as a noun:

    Sick people in general as a group.

    Examples:

    "We have to cure the sick."

  2. Sick as a noun (British, colloquial):

    vomit.

    Examples:

    "He lay there in a pool of his own sick."

  1. Sick as a verb:

    To vomit.

    Examples:

    "I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor."

  2. Sick as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To fall sick; to sicken.

  1. Sick as a verb (rare):