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

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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

The good news is that you can make food choices that support a healthy brain.
Warning! Junk foods can harm a teen’s brain|Sharon Oosthoek|November 19, 2020|Science News For Students
The USDA recently approved industry-first labeling stating that Cooks Venture poultry comes from healthier livestock than mainstream brands.
These chickens earned a healthier label from the USDA|By Monica Michael Willis/Saveur|November 18, 2020|Popular-Science
Twitter has said one of its “responsibilities is to ensure the public conversation is healthy”.
EmTech Stage: Twitter’s CTO on misinformation|Tate Ryan-Mosley|November 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Taken together, these accounts suggest that viral myocarditis can show up even in athletes who seem healthy.
Teen athletes with even mild COVID-19 can develop heart problems|Partho Sengupta|November 18, 2020|Science News For Students

Companies and organizations that are struggling with their sense of purpose or with creating a healthy culture can also learn a lot about themselves and their purpose from an untimely death.
Why Employees Should Write Their Company’s Obituary|Sean Braswell|November 16, 2020|Ozy
We then eliminated choices that had more than 35 percent of calories from fat—a government threshold for relative healthiness.
20 Healthiest Fast Foods|The Daily Beast|January 5, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Here, as at St. Mark's, there is a strong belief in the healthiness of red curtains at the various entrances.
Our Churches and Chapels|Atticus
For without these considerations, the healthiness of a dwelling cannot be assured.
Ten Books on Architecture|Vitruvius
I mean the fine healthiness of mind which eschews by instinct whatever is 'common or unclean'.
The Transgression of Andrew Vane|Guy Wetmore Carryl
They wanted to ask me a question about the healthiness of Brand Hall, drains, and all that kind of thing.
A True Friend|Adeline Sergeant
Such value as Wyoming has lies in its hardiness, productiveness, healthiness and earliness.
The Grapes of New York|U. P. Hedrick

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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