Synonyms of healing

healing 1 of 3

noun

as in recovery

the process or period of gradually regaining one's health and strength

the long period of healing following the operation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• recovery
• rehabilitation
• rehab
• recuperation
• convalescence
• mending
• comeback
• revival
• survival
• resuscitation
• rally
• snapback

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• deterioration
• failing
• decline
• degeneration
• weakening
• sinking
• fading
• worsening
• regression
• wilting
• relapse
• wasting (away)
• languishing
• withering

healing

2 of 3

adjective

as in medicinal

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 & Similar Words

• medicinal
• therapeutic
• curative
• restorative
• remedial
• healthful
• officinal
• healthy
• wholesome
• sanative
• salutary
• corrective
• salubrious
• tonic
• alleviative

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

healing

3 of 3

verb

present participle of heal

1

as in rehabilitating

to restore to a healthy condition

a low-fat vegetarian diet, moderate exercise, and stress management help heal a diseased heart

heal the sick

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rehabilitating
• curing
• fixing
• treating
• repairing
• reviving
• relieving
• alleviating
• mending
• rehabbing
• setting up
• attending (to)
• renewing
• rejuvenating
• revitalizing
• nursing
• doctoring
• ministering (to)
• medicating
• remedying
• caring (for)
• physicking
• fortifying
• resuscitating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hurting
• damaging
• impairing
• disabling
• wounding
• crippling
• injuring
• harming
• mutilating
• ailing
• wasting
• weakening
• maiming
• lacerating
• debilitating
• mangling
• afflicting
• laming
• sapping
• sickening
• enervating
• laying up
• enfeebling

2

as in recovering

to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness

most of the soldiers could go home while they were still healing from their wounds

Synonyms & Similar Words

• recovering
• improving
• recuperating
• convalescing
• gaining
• recouping
• coming back
• mending
• rallying
• pulling round
• snapping back
• surviving
• reviving
• coming to
• coming around
• coming round
• cheering (up)
• recruiting
• picking up
• perking (up)
• pulling through

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ailing
• coming down
• collapsing
• declining
• failing
• deteriorating
• weakening
• worsening
• fading
• wasting (away)
• sinking
• degenerating
• sickening
• languishing
• relapsing
• withering
• wilting
• regressing

3

as in curing

to bring about recovery from

time heals all wounds, even those of the heart

Synonyms & Similar Words

• curing
• alleviating
• remedying
• relieving
• soothing
• mending
• treating
• easing
• lightening
• allaying
• tempering
• salving
• moderating
• diagnosing
• assuaging
• palliating
• nursing
• medicating
• doctoring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• worsening
• aggravating
• misdiagnosing
• overdiagnosing
• underdiagnosing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of healing

Noun

Every month the uterus sheds and regenerates its lining in what is a remarkable demonstration of scarless healing. — Fiorella Valdesolo, Allure, 30 Oct. 2026

After months of treatment, Luther saw remarkable healing and a full recovery in most physical ailments, but the injuries also affected her cognitive functions. — Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026

In the wake of that scandal, which sparked weeks of protests, some argued that Bass would be a healing force at City Hall. — Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

Assuming there are any illnesses and injuries vying for your attention, you will probably be focused on healing and getting to the root of these issues in November. — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026

This matters because, for a patient who has already left the country, graft take isn’t fully visible for months, and early signs of infection or improper healing are easy for a patient to misread alone. — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 29 Oct. 2026

Where a clinical setting is a crucial component of health and healing, public performances create spaces for learning, understanding and catharsis. — Katherine Pukinskis, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

As healing progresses, rehabilitation can gradually add strengthening and eventually more activity-specific movements. — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 26 Oct. 2026

Peptides tinker with the body’s fundamental mechanisms for growth, healing, and inflammation, which can lead to a cancerous overgrowth of tissue and trigger immune problems in some people. — Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 24 Oct. 2026

Adjective

The compound also acts as a potent antioxidant, neutralizing unstable molecules that build up in non-healing wounds and cause cellular damage. — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2026

Other symptoms include non-healing or bleeding wounds and feeling or seeing the maggots. — Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026

Persistent claudication, non-healing wounds, severe swelling and numbness that doesn’t resolve are all reasons to see a clinician. — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026

That becomes this very healing social situation. — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025

Verb

The Holistic Touch treatment uses Ayurvedic techniques to rebalance the body’s energy, including healing poultices and marma-point stimulation. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026

Recognizing this divine reality even a little, brings tangible, healing comfort to anyone who opens up their heart to it. — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2026

Carson draws parallels between the familial traumas of those who remain and the broader societal wounds of a province still healing from decades of sectarian violence. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Rodriguez explains that, in many ways, the aftermath of the hurricane sparked arguments on both sides that were necessary to begin healing the tension. — Johanna Ferreira, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Her path crosses with that of Inocência, an enslaved Black woman who possesses healing knowledge, knows the land, and devises her own strategies of resistance. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

The record was just a year of me healing myself through making music. — Liam Hess, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2026

There was a case in recent years where school staff noticed a student from a faith-healing family having up to 13 seizures a day, which ultimately led to a doctor going to court to say the girl needed emergency medical attention. — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2026