healthy

[ hel-thee ]

/ ˈhɛl θi /

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adjective, health·i·er, health·i·est.

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.

eligible for the Food and Drug Administration's label certifying that a food is suitable for helping consumers achieve a total diet that conforms to dietary recommendations.

prosperous or sound: a healthy business.

Informal. fairly large: I bought a healthy number of books.

OTHER WORDS FOR healthy

1 hale, hearty, robust.

3 nutritious, nourishing.

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OPPOSITES FOR healthy

1 sick.

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Origin of healthy

First recorded in 1545–55; health + -y¹

synonym study for healthy

3. Healthy, healthful, salubrious, 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 and salubrious are applied chiefly to what is conducive to health: healthful diet or exercise; a salubrious impact on mental outlook. 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.

OTHER WORDS FROM healthy

health·i·ly, adverbhealth·i·ness, noun

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH healthy

healthful, healthy (see synonym study at the current entry)

How to use healthy in a sentence

We have to keep talking about our obsession with a “healthy body” being defined by what it looks like.
What ‘The Crown’ got right in portraying Princess Diana’s bulimia: It let her voice be heard|Amanda Long|November 20, 2020|Washington Post
“I can eat really healthy right now, and it doesn’t matter,” Dalton added with a smile, “because I can’t taste it.”
Cowboys QB Andy Dalton says covid-19 ‘hit me hard’ after concussion|Des Bieler|November 20, 2020|Washington Post
In fact, the World Health Organization recently predicted that healthy young adults may not even be able to get a vaccine until 2022, after the elderly, health-care workers, and other high-risk groups are vaccinated.
Who should get a covid-19 vaccine first?|Niall Firth|November 20, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Washington has been stuck in limbo since Wall’s Achilles injury, and its 2021 playoff hopes largely rest on his comeback and his ability to stay healthy.
NBA free agency tracker (plus trades): Warriors acquire Kelly Oubre; 76ers trade Al Horford to Thunder|Ben Golliver|November 20, 2020|Washington Post

As we prepare our nation’s recovery, women of color entrepreneurs will be one of the most important parts of a healthy economy.
To jump-start America’s economy, invest in women entrepreneurs of color|matthewheimer|November 19, 2020|Fortune
Sischy reports that “Galliano turned the tables and suggested that Toledano should change his diet and eat more healthily.”
Galliano Addresses Alcoholism in First Interview Since His Anti-Semitic Rant|Misty White Sidell|June 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Thus, the idea of Ghetto Gourmet, or cooking healthily for an urban audience, was born.
Coolio: From Gangsta Rap to 'Ghetto Gourmet'|Rachel Syme|December 8, 2009|DAILY BEAST
He contends that children who go to bed at night healthily tired out, will not be likely to think of masturbation.
The Sexual Life of the Child|Albert Moll
He is a great lover of books and gardening—two antithetical hobbies—which are charming in themselves, and healthily counteractive.
Heroes of the Telegraph|J. Munro
And the implication seemed to be that to a healthily virtuous and superior mind like the Judge's the obscene is merely wearisome.
Impressions And Comments|Havelock Ellis
They may not have to work in order to live, but they must of a certainty work in order to live healthily.
Nervous Breakdowns and How to Avoid Them|Charles David Musgrove
So the evening proved a merry little festivity, and Patty went to bed healthily tired, but healthily happy.
Patty's Friends|Carolyn Wells

British Dictionary definitions for healthy

healthy

/ (ˈhɛlθɪ) /

adjective healthier or healthiest

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

Derived forms of healthy

healthily, adverbhealthiness, noun

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