Healthy
Healthy adjective - Enjoying health and vigor.
Usage example: always a hard worker, Grandma has remained healthy into her 80s
Infirm
Infirm adjective - Lacking bodily strength.
Usage example: the elderly and infirm have to be especially careful during the winter months
Nearby Word: infirmity
Both words in one sentence
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Spanish Flu, a pandemic that targeted the healthy and more or less spared the infirm.
Source: Film / World War Z
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Infirm or Healthy. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/healthy/infirm.
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