sickly russian

• боле́зненный

  painful, sore

  sickly, frail

  morbid, unhealthy

  painful (emotionally), distressing, sensitive (of a topic)

• желтова́тый

  yellowish, yellowy, pale yellow

  sallow, sickly yellow

• боле́зненно

  painfully, badly, oversensitively

  painfully

  morbidly, unhealthily, excessively

  sickly

• нездоро́вый

  unhealthy, unwholesome

  unwell, sickly, ill

  morbid, unhealthy

• хи́лый

  sickly, frail, puny, weak

  stunted, undergrown, scrawny

• до́хлый

  dead

  sickly, puny, weak, feeble

• ча́хлый

  stunted, poor, wilted, sickly

• не́мощный

  infirm, sick, feeble, sickly

• при́торный

  cloying, sickly sweet, over-sweet

  saccharine, mawkish, twee

• боле́зный

  sickly, ill, unhealthy

• слаща́вый

  sugary sickly-sweet attitude

• захире́ть

  to grow sickly, to wither, to droop, to fall into decay

• дохля́тина

  weakling, feeble person, sickly person, wimp

  carrion, carcass, dead animal

• заболева́ющий

  falling ill, getting sick, sickly, ailing

• хвора́ющий

  sickly, ailing, unwell

• ча́хнущий

  pining away, withering, languishing, sickly

• похва́рывающий

  feeling a bit unwell, a bit sickly, somewhat ailing

• похва́рывавший

  ailing, sickly, frail, often ill

Examples

• Он выглядел бледным и чахлым после болезни.

  He looked pale and sickly after his illness.

• Ребёнок родился слабеньким и болезненным.

  The child was born weak and sickly.

• В малолетстве она была очень болезненной.

  She was very sickly in her childhood.

• Похварывавший ребёнок пропустил много уроков в школе.

  The sickly child missed many lessons at school.

• Не смотри на него так, он просто дохляк с виду.

  Don’t look at him like that—he just looks scrawny and sickly.