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.
Economists say the ecosystem is basically healthy; ecologists worry it may, be on the verge of being irreparably damaged.
My dad, despite his rampant hypochondria, had always been healthy.
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
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.
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu.
