Meaning of HEALTHY
| Pronunciation: | | 'helthee
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- [adj] physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise"
- [adj] having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"
- [adj] promoting health; healthful; "a healthy diet"; "clean healthy air"; "plenty of healthy sleep"; "healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy"; "the salubrious mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis; "carrots are good for you"
- [adj] exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem";"sound advice"; "no reasonable explanation for his decision"
- [adj] financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"
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| | Synonyms: | | able, able-bodied, blooming, bouncing, conditioned, firm, fit, flourishing, flushed, full-blooded, good, good for you(p), growing, hale, hearty, in condition(p), intelligent, levelheaded, lusty, reasonable, red-blooded, rose-cheeked, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rubicund, ruddy, salubrious, sanguine, sensible, thriving, well-preserved, whole, wholesome |
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| | Antonyms: | | unfit, unhealthy | | |
| | See Also: | | healthy, robust, sound, well | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Health"y\, a. [Compar. {Healthier}; superl.
{Healthiest}.]
1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound;
free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.
His mind was now in a firm and healthy state.
--Macaulay.
2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy
complexion.
3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as,
a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
Syn: Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome;
salutary.
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