healthy
[hel-thee]
- possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality: a healthy body; a healthy mind.
- pertaining to or characteristic of good health, or a sound and vigorous mind: a healthy appearance; healthy attitudes.
- conducive to good health; healthful: healthy recreations.
- prosperous or sound: a healthy business.
- Informal. fairly large: I bought a healthy number of books.
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Origin of healthy
Synonyms
See more synonyms for healthy on Thesaurus.com1. hale, hearty, robust. 3. nutritious, nourishing. Healthy, healthful, salutary, wholesome refer to the promotion of health. Healthy, while applied especially to what possesses health, is also applicable to what is conducive to health: a healthy climate; not a healthy place to be. Healthful is applied chiefly to what is conducive to health: healthful diet or exercise. Salutary suggests something that is conducive to well-being generally, as well as beneficial in preserving or in restoring health: salutary effects; to take salutary measures. It is used also to indicate moral benefit: to have a salutary fear of devious behavior. Wholesome has connotations of attractive freshness and purity; it applies to what is good for one, physically, morally, or both: wholesome food; wholesome influences or advice.
Antonyms
1. sick.
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Examples from the Web for healthily
Historical Examples
“Healthily dry, suh, in the matter of water,” the Colonel approved.
Desert DustEdwin L. Sabin
For his age it was a healthy, and a healthily typical, existence.
Double HarnessAnthony Hope
At least he has stirred it healthily, with steady vigour and good-will.
Revolution and Other EssaysJack London
With a thrill of surprised delight, he realised that he was healthily sleepy.
The Flying DeathSamuel Hopkins Adams
Healthily, or rather, in his eagerness for health, he refused to think of the consequences.
Old MoleGilbert Cannan
healthy
- enjoying good health
- functioning well or being soundthe company's finances are not very healthy
- conducive to health; salutary
- indicating soundness of body or minda healthy appetite
- informal considerable in size or amounta healthy sum
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Word Origin and History for healthily
healthy
adj.
1550s, from health + -y (2). Slightly earlier in the same sense was healthsome (1530s). Related: Healthiness.
It is wrong to say that certain articles of food are healthy or unhealthy. Wholesome and unwholesome are the right words. A pig may be healthy or unhealthy while alive; but after he is killed and becomes pork, he can enjoy no health, and suffer no sickness. [Eliza Leslie, "Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book," Philadelphia, 1839]
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
healthy
(hĕl′thē)- Possessing good health.
- Conducive to good health; healthful.
- Indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind.
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