Antonyms for pathological
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : path-uh-loj-i-kuh l or path-uh-loj-ik |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌpæθ əˈlɒdʒ ɪ kəl or ˌpæθ əˈlɒdʒ ɪk |
Definition of pathological
Origin :- 1680s, "pertaining to disease," formed in English from pathologic + -al (1). Sense of "worthy to be a subject of pathology, morbid, excessive" (e.g. pathological liar) is attested from 1845. Related: Pathologically.
- As in medical : adj healing
- As in unwholesome : adj unhealthy
- Accentuated forms of pathological masochism are, however, rare in women.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- It can hardly be assumed that all these women have a pathological heredity.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- There is a small group of pathological conditions, however, in which this is not the case.
- Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
- Other methods, however, may supplement the pathological one.
- Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
- He liked and admired Sumner, but thought his mind a pathological study.
- Extract from : « The Education of Henry Adams » by Henry Adams
- Does your hero's achievement go in the pathological or the moral direction?
- Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I » by John Morley
- This man presents rather a pathological than a historical problem.
- Extract from : « A History of the United States » by Cecil Chesterton
- Clinical and Pathological Observations in India, pp. 44, 325.
- Extract from : « A Manual of the Operations of Surgery » by Joseph Bell
- In this way they have provided the pathological theory with most of its facts.
- Extract from : « Essay on the Creative Imagination » by Th. Ribot
- Being in love is, as just indicated, a pathological, morbid phenomenon.
- Extract from : « Woman » by William J. Robinson
Synonyms for pathological
- alleviating
- baneful
- cathartic
- corrupt
- curative
- decayed
- deleterious
- detrimental
- disinfectant
- evil
- foul
- harmful
- immoral
- impure
- inimical
- insalubrious
- malignant
- medicating
- medicinal
- morbid
- narcotic
- noxious
- offensive
- pathological
- peptic
- pernicious
- pharmaceutical
- poisonous
- preventive
- prophylactic
- repulsive
- restorative
- salutary
- sedative
- therapeutic
- tonic
- toxic
- unclean
- unhealthful
- unsound
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