Usually means: Most prone to illness, weakest.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word sickliest:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. sickliest: Merriam-Webster
  2. sickliest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sickliest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sickliest: Vocabulary.com
  5. sickliest: Wordnik
  6. sickliest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sickliest: Wiktionary
  8. sickliest: Dictionary.com
  9. sickliest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. sickliest: FreeDictionary.org
  11. sickliest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sickliest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sickliest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sickliest: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sickly)

adjective:  Frequently ill or in poor health; weakly.
adjective:  Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.
adjective:  Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth. (of a plant)
adjective:  Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.
adjective:  Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (of light) not very bright.
adjective:  Lacking intensity or vigour.
adjective:  Associated with poor moral or mental well-being.
adjective:  Tending to produce nausea.
adjective:  Overly sweet.
adjective:  (obsolete) Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (of a period of time).
adjective:  (obsolete) Tending to produce disease or poor health.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, literary) To make (something) sickly.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) To become sickly.
adverb:  In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness.
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