Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
healing (adjective)tending to cure disease or restore health
SYNONIMS:
curative, healing, officinal, remedial, restorative, therapeuticRELATED WORDS:
healthful, healthy, salubrious, salutary, sanative, wholesome; alleviative, corrective, tonicNEAR ANTONYMS:
insalubrious, noisome, noxious, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome; deleterious, injurious, pernicious; infectious, poisonous, toxic; adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, ill; insanitary, unhygienic, unsanitarythe process or period of gradually regaining one's health and strength
SYNONIMS:
comeback, healing, mending, rally, recovery, recuperation, rehab, rehabilitation, snapbackRELATED WORDS:
resuscitation, revival; survivalNEAR ANTONYMS:
decline, degeneration, deterioration, fading, failing, languishing, sinking, wasting (away), weakening, wilting, withering, worsening; regression, relapse