Healthy and Sick

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Healthy

Healthy adjective - Enjoying health and vigor.
Usage example: always a hard worker, Grandma has remained healthy into her 80s
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Sick is an antonym for healthy in topics: well, in good condition.
Nearby Words: heal, health, healthful, healing, healthiness

Sick

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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Healthy is an antonym for sick in topics: unwell, morbid, fed up, not healthy.
Nearby Words: sickly, sicken, sickening, sickness, sicked
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  • Cause who decides what's sick or healthy?
    Source: Precision F Strike / Music
  • Furthermore, most viruses don't last very long outside of the cell, and thus require close contact between sick and healthy individuals.
    Source: Virus Misnomer
  • It's also inevitable that a sick child is going to demand more attention than a healthy one.
    Source: Because You Can Cope
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