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sick vs healthy

sick

Definitions

adjective

  1. deeply affected by a strong feeling
  2. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  3. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
  4. having a strong distaste from surfeit
  5. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
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verb

  1. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

noun

  1. people who are sick

Examples

A few people were crying, and one girl was very sick and puking, but most people tried to stay calm.

The deep grief and guilt of the mother as well as the hatred and home-sickness of the daughter permeate the story and eventually melt away due to the abiding family love.

The pain is so bad that I gag, a sickish feeling in my sinuses.

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healthy

Definitions

adjective

  1. exercising or showing good judgment
  2. financially secure and functioning well
  3. promoting health; healthful
  4. large in amount or extent or degree
  5. 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.

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