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Healthy vs. Sick — What's the Difference?

Healthy vs. Sick — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Healthy and Sick

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Healthy

In a good physical or mental condition; in good health
The family is the basis of any healthy society
I feel fit and healthy

Sick

Affected by physical or mental illness
Visiting the sick and the elderly
Nursing very sick children
Half my staff were off sick

Healthy

Possessing good health
A healthy child.

Sick

Feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit
Mark felt sick with fear
He was starting to feel sick

Healthy

Conducive to good health; healthful
Healthy air.
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Sick

Intensely annoyed with or bored by (someone or something) as a result of having had too much of them
I'm absolutely sick of your moods

Healthy

Indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind
A healthy attitude.

Sick

(especially of humour) having something unpleasant such as death or misfortune as its subject and dealing with it in an offensive way
This was someone's idea of a sick joke

Healthy

Sizable; considerable
A healthy portion of peas.
A healthy raise in salary.

Sick

Excellent.

Healthy

So as to promote one's health; in a healthy way
If you eat healthy, you'll probably live longer.

Sick

Vomit
She was busy wiping sick from the carpet

Healthy

Enjoying good health; well; free from disease or disorder.
He was father to three healthy kids.
A healthy mind in a healthy body
Brush regularly to keep your teeth and gums strong and healthy.
My fruit trees are looking very healthy.

Sick

Bring something up by vomiting
She sicked up all over the carpet
He was passing blood and sicking it up

Healthy

Conducive to health.
A healthy diet can help to maintain proper weight.

Sick

Set a dog on
The plan was to surprise the heck out of the grizzly by sicking the dog on him

Healthy

Evincing health.
Her face had a healthy glow.

Sick

Suffering from or affected with a physical illness; ailing.

Healthy

(figuratively) Significant, hefty; beneficial.
A healthy respect for authority
Sam unwrapped the sandwich and took a healthy bite out of the middle.
A healthy dislike, a healthy contempt

Sick

Of or for sick persons
Sick wards.

Healthy

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant.
His mind was now in a firm and healthy state.

Sick

Nauseated.

Healthy

Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.

Sick

Mentally ill or disturbed.

Healthy

Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.

Sick

Unwholesome, morbid, or sadistic
A sick joke.
A sick crime.

Healthy

Having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease;
A rosy healthy baby
Staying fit and healthy

Sick

Defective; unsound
A sick economy.

Healthy

Financially secure and functioning well;
A healthy economy

Sick

Deeply distressed; upset
Sick with worry.

Healthy

Promoting health; healthful;
A healthy diet
Clean healthy air
Plenty of healthy sleep
Healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy
The salubrious mountain air and water
Carrots are good for you

Sick

Disgusted; revolted.

Healthy

Physically and mentally sound or healthy;
Felt relaxed and fit after their holiday
Keeps fit with diet and exercise

Sick

Weary; tired
Sick of it all.

Healthy

Exercising or showing good judgment;
Healthy scepticism
A healthy fear of rattlesnakes
The healthy attitude of French laws
Healthy relations between labor and management
An intelligent solution
A sound approach to the problem
Sound advice
No sound explanation for his decision

Sick

Pining; longing
Sick for his native land.

Sick

In need of repairs
A sick ship.

Sick

Constituting an unhealthy environment for those working or residing within
A sick office building.

Sick

Unable to produce a profitable yield of crops
Sick soil.

Sick

(Slang) Excellent; outstanding
Did a sick run down the halfpipe.

Sick

Sick people considered as a group. Often used with the.

Sick

Chiefly British Vomit.

Sick

Variant of sic2.

Sick

In poor health; ill.
She was sick all day with the flu.
We have to care for the sick.

Sick

Having an urge to vomit.

Sick

(colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.

Sick

(colloquial) In bad taste.
That's a sick joke.

Sick

Tired of or annoyed by something.
I've heard that song on the radio so many times that I'm starting to get sick of it.

Sick

(slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
This tune is sick.
Dude, this car's got a sick subwoofer!

Sick

In poor condition.
Sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick

Sick

(agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.

Sick

Vomit.
He lay there in a pool of his own sick.

Sick

(especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated.

Sick

(colloquial) To vomit.
I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor.

Sick

To fall sick; to sicken.

Sick

(rare) sic

Sick

Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.
Behold them that are sick with famine.

Sick

Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

Sick

Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; - with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
He was not so sick of his master as of his work.

Sick

Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.

Sick

Sickness.

Sick

To fall sick; to sicken.

Sick

People who are sick;
They devote their lives to caring for the sick

Sick

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth;
After drinking too much, the students vomited
He purged continuously
The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

Sick

Not in good physical or mental health;
Ill from the monotony of his suffering

Sick

Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

Sick

Affected with madness or insanity;
A man who had gone mad

Sick

Having a strong distaste from surfeit;
Grew more and more disgusted
Fed up with their complaints
Sick of it all
Sick to death of flattery
Gossip that makes one sick
Tired of the noise and smoke

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