healthy
Use Healthy in a sentence
θi adjective, health·i·er, health·i·est.
1.
2.
pertaining to or characteristic of good health, or a sound and vigorous mind: a healthy appearance; healthy attitudes.
3.
conducive to good health; healthful: healthy recreations.
4.
prosperous or sound: a healthy business.
5.
Informal. fairly large: I bought a healthy number of books.
Related forms
health·i·ly, adverb
health·i·ness, noun
Synonyms
1. 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.
1. 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.
1. sick.
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World English Dictionary
healthy (ˈhɛlθɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , healthier, healthiest | |
| 1. | enjoying good health |
| 2. | functioning well or being sound: the company's finances are not very healthy |
| 3. | conducive to health; salutary |
| 4. | indicating soundness of body or mind: a healthy appetite |
| 5. | informal considerable in size or amount: a healthy sum |
| 'healthily | |
| —adv | |
| 'healthiness | |
| —n | |
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Medical Dictionary
healthy health·y (hěl'thē)
adj. health·i·er, health·i·est
Possessing good health.
Conducive to good health; healthful.
Indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind.
health'i·ly adv.
health'i·ness n.
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Example sentences
We who think that colleges and universities in a healthy society will reflect.
All of which shows you that healthy living can be so not worth it.
Estimates suggest that several thousand people worldwide wish to get rid of a normal healthy limb.
Fortunately, physicians no longer believe that bleeding the sick will make them healthy.
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