Healthy \Health"y\ (-[y^]), a. [Compar. Healthier
(-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Healthiest.]
1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound;
free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant.
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His mind was now in a firm and healthy state.
--Macaulay.
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2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy
complexion.
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
healthy
adj 1: having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from
infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying
fit and healthy" [ant: unhealthy]
2: financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"
3: 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" [syn: salubrious, good for you(p)]
4: physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and
fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and
exercise" [syn: fit] [ant: unfit]
5: 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 sound explanation for
his decision" [syn: intelligent, levelheaded, sound]
[also: healthiest, healthier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "healthy":
advantageous, alive and kicking, auspicious, beneficial,
benevolent, benign, big, bon, bonny, bracing, braw,
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, bueno, bumper, bunkum, capital,
chipper, cogent, commendable, considerable, constitutional,
elegant, enjoying health, estimable, eupeptic, excellent,
expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, fit, fit and fine,
flourishing, full of beans, good, good for, goodly, grand, great,
hale, hale and hearty, health-enhancing, health-preserving,
healthful, helpful, hygeian, hygienic, in condition,
in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health,
in good shape, in health, in high feather, in mint condition,
in shape, in the pink, invigorating, kind, large, large-scale,
laudable, man-sized, nice, noble, nourishing, numerous, nutritious,
pleasant, profitable, refreshing, regal, right, robust, royal,
salubrious, salutary, sane, sanitary, sizable, skillful, sound,
splendid, strong, sturdy, substantial, tall, thriving, tidy, tonic,
trim, useful, valid, very good, vigorous, virtuous, well, whole,
wholesome
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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