Healthful and Sick

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Healthful adjective - Beneficial to the health of body or mind.

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Sick is an antonym for healthful.

Nearby Words: healthy, health, healthily, healthfully

Sick adjective - Temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body.

Usage example: those coworkers who always seem to get sick immediately before or after long holiday weekends

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Healthful is an antonym for sick.

Nearby Words: sickly, sicken, sickening, sickness, sicked

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