Definition

Adjective: 1. Restored to health or sound condition: Describes a person, body part, or injury that has recovered from illness, damage, or a wound. It implies the process of recovery is complete. 2. Made whole again: Can describe the mending of emotional or psychological wounds, though this is often a figurative extension of the primary physical meaning.

Usage

The adjective "healed" is used to describe a state of completed recovery. It typically follows a linking verb like "is," "was," "appears," or "seems." It can modify nouns directly (e.g., a healed wound) but is more commonly found in predicate adjective constructions.

Examples

• Physical Recovery:

  • The cut on her hand has completely healed.
  • After months of therapy, his broken leg is finally healed.
  • The patient appears healed and ready to go home.

• Figurative/Emotional Recovery:

  • With time, the emotional scars began to feel healed.
  • Their relationship was damaged but is now healed.

Advanced Usage

• "Newly healed": Emphasizes that the recovery is very recent.
  • Be careful with the newly healed skin.
• "Fully/Completely/Perfectly healed": Intensifiers used to stress that the recovery is total with no remaining issues.
  • The surgeon confirmed the bone was fully healed.

Variants and Related Words

• Heal (verb): To make or become healthy or sound again.
  • This medicine will help heal the infection.
• Healing (noun or adjective): The process of becoming healed; having the ability to heal.
  • The healing process took six weeks. (noun)
  • She believes in the healing power of nature. (adjective)
• Healer (noun): A person or thing that heals.

Synonyms

• Cured: Often used specifically for diseases or medical conditions.
• Recovered: Returned to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.
• Mended: Made whole or functional again; often used for broken bones or items.
• Whole: Restored to an undamaged or unimpaired state.

Antonyms

• Injured: Harmed or damaged.
• Wounded: Suffering from an injury, especially a cut or break in the skin.
• Infected: Contaminated with a disease-causing organism.
• Broken: Physically fractured or emotionally shattered (not yet mended).

Adjective

1. freed from illness or injury
   • the patient appears cured
   • the incision is healed
   • appears to be entirely recovered
   • when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium- Normon Cameron