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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective healthy has 5 senses
- healthy(a = adj.all) Array - having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy" Derived forms noun health2, noun health1, noun healthiness1
- healthy(s = adj.all) Array - financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"
- healthy(s = adj.all) good for you, salubrious - 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"; "carrots are good for you"
- healthy(s = adj.all) intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded, sound - 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"
- healthy(s = adj.all) goodish, goodly, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy - large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune"
Antonym: unhealthy
CIDE DICTIONARY
healthy, a.
- Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant. [1913 Webster]"His mind was now in a firm and healthy state." [1913 Webster]
- Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion. [1913 Webster]
- Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
Syn. -- Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
healthy, adj. (healthier, healthiest)
1 having, showing, or promoting good health.
2 beneficial, helpful (a healthy respect for experience).
1 having, showing, or promoting good health.
2 beneficial, helpful (a healthy respect for experience).
Derivative
healthily adv. healthiness n.
THESAURUS
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, wholesomeROGET THESAURUS
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Health
N health, sanity, soundness, vigor, good health, perfect health, excellent health, rude health, robust health, bloom, mens sana in corpore sano, Hygeia, incorruption, incorruptibility, good state of health, clean bill of health, eupepsia, euphoria, euphory, St. Anthony's fire, healthy, healthful, in health, well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole, florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof, unscathed, uninjured, unmaimed, unmarred, untainted, sound of wind and limb, safe and sound, on one's legs, sound as a roach, sound as a bell, fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, fresh as April, hearty as a buck, in fine feather, in high feather, in good case, in full bloom, pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as well as can be expected, sanitary sanatory, health that snuffs the morning air, non est vivere sed valere vita.Salubrity
N salubrity, healthiness, fine air, fine climate, eudiometer, hygiene, valetudinarian, valetudinarianism, sanitarian, sanitarium, sanitOrium, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, wholesome, healthy, healthful, sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious, hygeian, hygienic, innoxious, innocuous, innocent, harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious, sanative, restorative, useful.
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