soul-sickadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈsəʊlsɪk/, U.S.

/ˈsoʊlˌsɪk/

Forms: see soul n. and sick adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: soul n., sick adj.

Etymology: < soul n. + sick adj.

A. adj.

1. Of a person (or a thing personified).

a. In religious contexts: that has a sick soul; suffering from spiritual or moral ill health. Now rare (in later use usually coloured by sense A. 1b).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > [adjective] > unwell in

dead1382

soul-sick1553

1553 J. Brooks Serm. Notable Paules Crosse sig. D.i If she [sc. England]..be sore infected, sore poysoned, sore soule sicke, or rather dead in soule, through misbeleuyng.

1591 A. Fraunce tr. Psalmes i, in Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel sig. D2^v Thrice happy the man, that lends noe care to the counsail Of soule-sick sinners.

1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 35 No doubt..they be shrewde signes that a man is extreamly soule-sicke, and in a very dangerous case.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 352 Soule-sicke Patients care not to be healed.

1688 J. Bunyan Water of Life 14 Why, soul-sick Sinner,..thou that art sick of that Disease that nothing can cure but a Potion of this River of the Water of Life.

1756 London Mag. July 336/1 Soul-sick and wounded sore With grievous sin, Which doth begin To fester, rankling more and more.

1873 L. M. Alcott Work ix. 205 The motley congregation that filled the great hall... Soul-sick people trying this new, and perhaps dangerous medicine, when others failed to cure.

1903 Dublin Rev. July 185 The masses made blind and soul-sick by materialism and agnosticism.

2002 V. Holyhead Gift of St. Benedict x. 116 The abbot is to have special concern for those who are soul-sick and wandering from the way of life they have professed.

b. Chiefly literary. Sick at heart; suffering from spiritual unease or distress; deeply dejected or depressed.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > severely

broken-minded1362

broken-spirited1362

all amort1565

heartsick1590

soul-sick1609

stricken1846

shattered1930

black depressed1938

1609 G. Markham Famous Whore sig. D3 Returning back from whence I came in hast, Soule-sick to see my goods and riches waste.

1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Maides Trag. iv. sig. H2^v I am soule sicke..Till I haue got your pardon.

1725 E. F. Haywood Injur'd Husband 221 He was quite Soul-sick, and mad at the Thoughts of what he had done.

1831 D. S. Bacon Tales of Puritans v. 68 I am weary—nay I am sick—very soul sick of hopes and exertions.

1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes III. viii. 167 Knight, soul-sick and weary of his life, did not arouse himself to utter a word in reply.

1945 N. Mailer Let. 8 Aug. in New Yorker 6 Oct. 52/1 So little of love in this [letter], but I am a little soul-sick tonight.

1992 A. S. Byatt Angels & Insects 174 She was back in the world but not of the world, she was soul-sick and dwelt in shadows.

2. Of a quality, condition, time, etc.: characterized by spiritual dejection or malaise.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing

darkOE

unmerryOE

deathlyc1225

dolefulc1275

elengec1275

dreicha1300

coolc1350

cloudyc1374

sada1375

colda1400

deadlya1400

joylessc1400

unjoyful?c1400

disconsolatea1413

mournfula1425

funeralc1425

uncheerfulc1449

dolent1489

dolesome1533

heavy-hearted1555

glum1558

ungladsome1558

black1562

pleasureless1567

dern1570

plaintive?1570

glummish1573

cheerless1575

comfortless1576

wintry1579

glummy1580

funebral1581

discouraging1584

dernful?1591

murk1596

recomfortless1596

sullen1597

amating1600

lugubrious1601

dusky1602

sable1603

funebrial1604

damping1607

mortifying1611

tearful?1611

uncouth1611

dulsome1613

luctual1613

dismal1617

winterous1617

unked1620

mopish1621

godforsaken?1623

uncheerly1627

funebrious1630

lugubrous1632

drearisome1633

unheartsome1637

feral1641

drear1645

darksome1649

sadding1649

saddening1650

disheartening1654

funebrous1654

luctiferous1656

mestifical1656

tristifical1656

sooty1657

dreary1667

tenebrose1677

clouded1682

tragicala1700

funereal1707

gloomy1710

sepulchrala1711

dumpishc1717

bleaka1719

depressive1727

lugubre1727

muzzy1728

dispiriting1733

uncheery1760

unconsolatory1760

unjolly1764

Decemberly1765

sombre1768

uncouthie1768

depressing1772

unmirthful1782

sombrous1789

disanimating1791

Decemberish1793

grey1794

uncheering1796

ungenial1796

uncomforting1798

disencouraginga1806

stern1812

chilling1815

uncheered1817

dejecting1818

mopey1821

desponding1828

wisht1829

leadening1835

unsportful1837

demoralizing1840

Novemberish1840

frigid1844

morne1844

tragic1848

wet-blanketty1848

morgue1850

ungladdeneda1851

adusk1856

smileless1858

soul-sick1858

Novemberya1864

saturnine1863

down1873

lacklustre1883

Heaven-abandoneda1907

downbeat1952

doomy1967

1858 E. J. Chapman Song of Charity 11 In her soul-sick solitude, A close companionship she made With all that bloomed in bower and glade.

1880 A. C. Swinburne Thalassius in Songs Springtides 30 Death spirit-stricken of soul-sick days.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 3 A soul-sick longing comes over us for the silent heather hill.

1914 T. Hardy Satires of Circumstance 30 So I wait for another morn And another night In this soul-sick blight.

2008 Toronto Star (Nexis) 28 Dec. id4 He..sells himself as anything the market will take... It's a kind of cunning borne of soulsick self-loathing.

B. n.

With the and plural agreement. Soul-sick people collectively.

ΚΠ

1627 H. Sydenham 5 Serm. 25 To the weake and soule-sicke, the still voice.

1897 H. Drummond Ideal Life 68 The soul-sick had to take their turn like the out-patients at the poor-hour outside the infirmary.

1910 Smart Set Aug. 30/2 ‘It is..a railroad ticket to—Niagara Falls!’ ‘Yes—to that..haven for the soulsick and despairing!’

1994 L. Meriwether Fragments of Ark (1995) xxvi. 316 Then the long train ride home,..stopping en route for the soulsick to stare at the coffin and say good-bye to the hollow-faced man inside.

Derivatives

ˈsoul-sickness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun]

unlustOE

sorrowfulnessa1250

heavinessc1275

elengenessec1320

dullnessc1369

tristourc1380

murknessc1390

tristesse1390

faintness1398

ungladnessa1400

droopingc1400

heavity14..

dejectionc1450

terne?a1513

disconsolation1515

descence1526

marea1529

sadness?1537

dumpishness1548

unblessedness1549

dolorousness1553

ruefulness?1574

dolefulness1586

heartlessness1591

languishment1591

mopishness1598

soul-sickness1603

contristation1605

damp1606

gloominess1607

sableness1607

uncheerfulnessa1617

disconsolateness1624

cheerlessnessa1631

dejectedness1633

droopingness1635

disanimation1637

lowness1639

desponsion1641

disconsolacy1646

despondency1653

dispiritedness1654

chagrin1656

demission1656

jawfall1660

weightedness1660

depression1665

disconsolancy1665

grumness1675

despondence1676

despond1678

disheartenednessa1680

glumness1727

low1727

gloom1744

low-spiritedness1754

blue devils1756

black dog1776

humdudgeon1785

blue devilism1787

dispiritude1797

wishtnessc1800

downheartedness1801

blue-devilage1816

dispiritment1827

downcastness1827

depressiveness1832

dolorosity1835

lugubriosity1840

disconsolance1847

down1856

heavy-heartedness1860

lugubriousness1879

sullenness1885

low key1886

melancholia1896

burn-out1903

mokus1924

downness1927

mopiness1927

deflation1933

wallow1934

1603 in P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals Index sig. Ffffff^v/3 Soule sicknesse woorse than disease of the body.

a1712 T. Halyburton Great Concern Salvation (1721) 26 Pray for much Grace to your Minister..that he may deal tenderly with you, as having himself had Acquaintance with Soul-sickness.

1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard v. ii. 191 I would have given you mine own blood to drink If that could heal you of your soul-sickness.

1907 E. von Arnim Fräulein Schmidt xxvii. 73 You are going through one of those tiresome soul-sicknesses that periodically overtake the too comfortable.

2004 S. M. Wolfe Unveiling i. 13 Depression, some called it... Rachel knew it as soulsickness—an old, familiar acquaintance.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	soul-sick
释义	soul-sickadj.n. Brit. /ˈsəʊlsɪk/, U.S. /ˈsoʊlˌsɪk/ Forms: see soul n. and sick adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: soul n., sick adj. Etymology: < soul n. + sick adj. A. adj. 1. Of a person (or a thing personified). a. In religious contexts: that has a sick soul; suffering from spiritual or moral ill health. Now rare (in later use usually coloured by sense A. 1b). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > [adjective] > unwell in dead1382 soul-sick1553 1553 J. Brooks Serm. Notable Paules Crosse sig. D.i If she [sc. England]..be sore infected, sore poysoned, sore soule sicke, or rather dead in soule, through misbeleuyng. 1591 A. Fraunce tr. Psalmes i, in Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel sig. D2^v Thrice happy the man, that lends noe care to the counsail Of soule-sick sinners. 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 35 No doubt..they be shrewde signes that a man is extreamly soule-sicke, and in a very dangerous case. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 352 Soule-sicke Patients care not to be healed. 1688 J. Bunyan Water of Life 14 Why, soul-sick Sinner,..thou that art sick of that Disease that nothing can cure but a Potion of this River of the Water of Life. 1756 London Mag. July 336/1 Soul-sick and wounded sore With grievous sin, Which doth begin To fester, rankling more and more. 1873 L. M. Alcott Work ix. 205 The motley congregation that filled the great hall... Soul-sick people trying this new, and perhaps dangerous medicine, when others failed to cure. 1903 Dublin Rev. July 185 The masses made blind and soul-sick by materialism and agnosticism. 2002 V. Holyhead Gift of St. Benedict x. 116 The abbot is to have special concern for those who are soul-sick and wandering from the way of life they have professed. b. Chiefly literary. Sick at heart; suffering from spiritual unease or distress; deeply dejected or depressed. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > severely broken-minded1362 broken-spirited1362 all amort1565 heartsick1590 soul-sick1609 stricken1846 shattered1930 black depressed1938 1609 G. Markham Famous Whore sig. D3 Returning back from whence I came in hast, Soule-sick to see my goods and riches waste. 1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Maides Trag. iv. sig. H2^v I am soule sicke..Till I haue got your pardon. 1725 E. F. Haywood Injur'd Husband 221 He was quite Soul-sick, and mad at the Thoughts of what he had done. 1831 D. S. Bacon Tales of Puritans v. 68 I am weary—nay I am sick—very soul sick of hopes and exertions. 1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes III. viii. 167 Knight, soul-sick and weary of his life, did not arouse himself to utter a word in reply. 1945 N. Mailer Let. 8 Aug. in New Yorker 6 Oct. 52/1 So little of love in this [letter], but I am a little soul-sick tonight. 1992 A. S. Byatt Angels & Insects 174 She was back in the world but not of the world, she was soul-sick and dwelt in shadows. 2. Of a quality, condition, time, etc.: characterized by spiritual dejection or malaise. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing darkOE unmerryOE deathlyc1225 dolefulc1275 elengec1275 dreicha1300 coolc1350 cloudyc1374 sada1375 colda1400 deadlya1400 joylessc1400 unjoyful?c1400 disconsolatea1413 mournfula1425 funeralc1425 uncheerfulc1449 dolent1489 dolesome1533 heavy-hearted1555 glum1558 ungladsome1558 black1562 pleasureless1567 dern1570 plaintive?1570 glummish1573 cheerless1575 comfortless1576 wintry1579 glummy1580 funebral1581 discouraging1584 dernful?1591 murk1596 recomfortless1596 sullen1597 amating1600 lugubrious1601 dusky1602 sable1603 funebrial1604 damping1607 mortifying1611 tearful?1611 uncouth1611 dulsome1613 luctual1613 dismal1617 winterous1617 unked1620 mopish1621 godforsaken?1623 uncheerly1627 funebrious1630 lugubrous1632 drearisome1633 unheartsome1637 feral1641 drear1645 darksome1649 sadding1649 saddening1650 disheartening1654 funebrous1654 luctiferous1656 mestifical1656 tristifical1656 sooty1657 dreary1667 tenebrose1677 clouded1682 tragicala1700 funereal1707 gloomy1710 sepulchrala1711 dumpishc1717 bleaka1719 depressive1727 lugubre1727 muzzy1728 dispiriting1733 uncheery1760 unconsolatory1760 unjolly1764 Decemberly1765 sombre1768 uncouthie1768 depressing1772 unmirthful1782 sombrous1789 disanimating1791 Decemberish1793 grey1794 uncheering1796 ungenial1796 uncomforting1798 disencouraginga1806 stern1812 chilling1815 uncheered1817 dejecting1818 mopey1821 desponding1828 wisht1829 leadening1835 unsportful1837 demoralizing1840 Novemberish1840 frigid1844 morne1844 tragic1848 wet-blanketty1848 morgue1850 ungladdeneda1851 adusk1856 smileless1858 soul-sick1858 Novemberya1864 saturnine1863 down1873 lacklustre1883 Heaven-abandoneda1907 downbeat1952 doomy1967 1858 E. J. Chapman Song of Charity 11 In her soul-sick solitude, A close companionship she made With all that bloomed in bower and glade. 1880 A. C. Swinburne Thalassius in Songs Springtides 30 Death spirit-stricken of soul-sick days. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 3 A soul-sick longing comes over us for the silent heather hill. 1914 T. Hardy Satires of Circumstance 30 So I wait for another morn And another night In this soul-sick blight. 2008 Toronto Star (Nexis) 28 Dec. id4 He..sells himself as anything the market will take... It's a kind of cunning borne of soulsick self-loathing. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Soul-sick people collectively. ΚΠ 1627 H. Sydenham 5 Serm. 25 To the weake and soule-sicke, the still voice. 1897 H. Drummond Ideal Life 68 The soul-sick had to take their turn like the out-patients at the poor-hour outside the infirmary. 1910 Smart Set Aug. 30/2 ‘It is..a railroad ticket to—Niagara Falls!’ ‘Yes—to that..haven for the soulsick and despairing!’ 1994 L. Meriwether Fragments of Ark (1995) xxvi. 316 Then the long train ride home,..stopping en route for the soulsick to stare at the coffin and say good-bye to the hollow-faced man inside. Derivatives ˈsoul-sickness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] unlustOE sorrowfulnessa1250 heavinessc1275 elengenessec1320 dullnessc1369 tristourc1380 murknessc1390 tristesse1390 faintness1398 ungladnessa1400 droopingc1400 heavity14.. dejectionc1450 terne?a1513 disconsolation1515 descence1526 marea1529 sadness?1537 dumpishness1548 unblessedness1549 dolorousness1553 ruefulness?1574 dolefulness1586 heartlessness1591 languishment1591 mopishness1598 soul-sickness1603 contristation1605 damp1606 gloominess1607 sableness1607 uncheerfulnessa1617 disconsolateness1624 cheerlessnessa1631 dejectedness1633 droopingness1635 disanimation1637 lowness1639 desponsion1641 disconsolacy1646 despondency1653 dispiritedness1654 chagrin1656 demission1656 jawfall1660 weightedness1660 depression1665 disconsolancy1665 grumness1675 despondence1676 despond1678 disheartenednessa1680 glumness1727 low1727 gloom1744 low-spiritedness1754 blue devils1756 black dog1776 humdudgeon1785 blue devilism1787 dispiritude1797 wishtnessc1800 downheartedness1801 blue-devilage1816 dispiritment1827 downcastness1827 depressiveness1832 dolorosity1835 lugubriosity1840 disconsolance1847 down1856 heavy-heartedness1860 lugubriousness1879 sullenness1885 low key1886 melancholia1896 burn-out1903 mokus1924 downness1927 mopiness1927 deflation1933 wallow1934 1603 in P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals Index sig. Ffffff^v/3 Soule sicknesse woorse than disease of the body. a1712 T. Halyburton Great Concern Salvation (1721) 26 Pray for much Grace to your Minister..that he may deal tenderly with you, as having himself had Acquaintance with Soul-sickness. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard v. ii. 191 I would have given you mine own blood to drink If that could heal you of your soul-sickness. 1907 E. von Arnim Fräulein Schmidt xxvii. 73 You are going through one of those tiresome soul-sicknesses that periodically overtake the too comfortable. 2004 S. M. Wolfe Unveiling i. 13 Depression, some called it... Rachel knew it as soulsickness—an old, familiar acquaintance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1553
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