feel better

Regain your strength

Feel better describes an improvement in physical or emotional state.

After illness, you feel better when symptoms ease: I'm finally feeling better after that flu.

Emotionally, it marks recovery from distress: Talking to her made me feel better.

As a wish, feel better or feel better soon expresses sympathy toward someone who's unwell.

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relief · comfort · soothe · chicken soup · rest · good night's sleep · medicine · wellness · mend · ease · take it easy · remedy · bounce back · uplifted · lighter · refreshed · revive · restore

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Opposites
health/physical condition trajectory

feel betterworsen

Become more severe

deteriorate · take a turn for the worse · decline · go downhill · relapse

emotional/psychological state trajectory

feel betterfeel down

Be sad or dispirited

sink · despair · spiral

comparative wellbeing

feel betterstagnate

Cease to develop

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G