sickest
- 1Superlative of sick.
Of all the patients on the ward, he was the sickest by far.
The flu left her the sickest she had been in years.
Note
A regular -est superlative that carries over from illness to sick's other meanings. In slang, where sick means excellent, the sickest trick is the best one. In the colloquial sense of bad taste, the sickest joke is the most offensive. Only context tells praise from disgust, so the slang use is safest among listeners who share it. Most sick exists alongside it, but sickest is the everyday choice.
That was the sickest trick I've ever seen him land.
He always tells the sickest jokes at the worst possible moment.
sickest is a form of sick
sick, adjective: Affected by an illness or otherwise in poor physical health. Full entry
- Spelling
- sick → sickest: add -est
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