healthy
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.
Origin of healthy
1synonym study For healthy
Other words for healthy
Opposites for healthy
Other words from healthy
- health·i·ly, adverb
- health·i·ness, noun
Words that may be confused with healthy
- healthful, healthy (see synonym study at the current entry)
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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 PostIn 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.
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 PostAs 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 | THE DAILY BEASTThus, the idea of Ghetto Gourmet, or cooking healthily for an urban audience, was born.
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 MollHe is a great lover of books and gardening—two antithetical hobbies—which are charming in themselves, and healthily counteractive.
Heroes of the Telegraph | J. MunroAnd 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 EllisThey 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 MusgroveSo 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
/ (ˈhɛlθɪ) /
enjoying good health
functioning well or being sound: the company's finances are not very healthy
conducive to health; salutary
indicating soundness of body or mind: a healthy appetite
informal considerable in size or amount: a healthy sum
Derived forms of healthy
- healthily, adverb
- healthiness, noun
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