sick vs healthy
sick
Definitions
adjective
- deeply affected by a strong feeling
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- having a strong distaste from surfeit
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
verb
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
noun
- people who are sick
Examples
Patients with primary infection tend to be clinically ‘sicker’ than those who are reinfected.
So the girl was out of bondage, but Cadwaladr, sick with humiliation and rage, must come under guard to be handed over for a price to the brother who discarded and misprized him.
To equate Tim McVeigh as a patriot is the mark of a sick and disturbed mind.
healthy
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.