What are the opposite words for healing?
The antonyms for the word "healing" are numerous and varied, depending on the context in which the term is used. In a medical context, the opposite of healing would be worsening or deteriorating, indicating that a patient's condition is either not improving or getting worse. Alternatively, in a personal or social sense, the antonyms of healing could be calculated to be divisive, harmful, or destructive, indicating a state where the person or group is separating, tearing down, or causing harm. Some additional antonyms for healing could include damaging, worsening, debilitating, hurting, provoking, and exacerbating, all of which express a negative or undesirable state of being.
- relapse
- adulteration
- trauma
- contamination
-
hurt
- boo-boo,
- ill-treatment,
- ill treatments,
- booboos,
- Downs,
- booboo,
- black and blue,
- black and blues,
- black blue,
- black blues,
- boo-boos,
- dis advantage,
- dis advantages,
- dis comfort,
- dis comforts,
- dis service,
- dis services,
- dis tress,
- dis tresses,
- dis-advantage,
- dis-advantages,
- dis-comfort,
- dis-comforts,
- dis-service,
- dis-services,
- dis-tress,
- dis-tresses,
- ill treatment,
- ill-treatments,
- illtreatment,
- illtreatments,
- mis chief,
- mis chiefs,
- mis fortune,
- mis fortunes,
- mis-chief,
- mis-chiefs,
- mis-fortunes,
- out rages,
- out-rage,
- out-rages.
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injury; damage
- hurt.
- severe mental or physical pain
- hurtful
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injurious
- mischievous,
- nocent,
- opprobrious,
- unconducive,
- dis advantageous,
- dis-advantageous,
- more libeling,
- more nocent,
- more unconducive,
- most libeling,
- most nocent,
- most unconducive,
- pre judicial,
- pre-judicial,
- un conducive,
- un healthier,
- un healthiest,
- un healthy,
- un just,
- un juster,
- un justest,
- un-conducive,
- un-healthiest,
- un-healthy,
- un-just,
- un-juster,
- un-justest.
- poison/poisonous
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Other relevant words
- affliction,
- damage,
- detriment,
- harm,
- hurt,
- illness,
- indisposition,
- injury,
- sickness,
- unhealthiness,
- unsoundness,
- adverse,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- damaging,
- deleterious,
- detrimental,
- harmful,
- hurtful,
- ill,
- infectious,
- injurious,
- insalubrious,
- insanitary,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- pernicious,
- poisonous,
- toxic,
- unhealthful,
- unhealthy,
- unhygienic,
- unsanitary,
- unwholesome.
Antonym of the day
bi lateral
- Antonyms:
- multilateral, unilateral, detached.
