healing

healing

adjective

Definition of HEALING

tending to cure disease or restore health <the native peoples of South America recognized the healing powers of the dried bark of the cinchona tree, formerly used as a specific in malaria>

Synonyms curative, healing, officinal, remedial, restorative, therapeutic

Related Words healthful, healthy, salubrious, salutary, sanative, wholesome; alleviative, corrective, tonic

Near Antonyms insalubrious, noisome, noxious, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome; deleterious, injurious, pernicious; infectious, poisonous, toxic; adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, ill; insanitary, unhygienic, unsanitary