healthy vs ill vs sick
Definitions
adjective
- exercising or showing good judgment
- financially secure and functioning well
- promoting health; healthful
- large in amount or extent or degree
- having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease
Examples
The critics call its recipes bland, unhelpful, unoriginal and unhealthy.
Consumers get incredibly upset when dieticians and researchers backtrack on previous findings, proclaiming that products once deemed healthy are now in question.
I eat a lot of chicken and fish, rice and pasta and maintain an all-round healthy diet.
Definitions
adjective
- indicating hostility or enmity
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- presaging ill fortune
- distressing
- resulting in suffering or adversity
adverb
- (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
- unfavorably or with disapproval
- with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly
noun
- an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
Examples
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys.
It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
