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healthy (helt̸hē)

adjective healthier health′i·er, healthiest health′i·est

  1. having good health; well; sound
  2. showing or resulting from good health a healthy color
  3. healthful
  4. Informal large, vigorous, etc. a healthy yell

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healthy

modif.

  1. In good health

    sound, trim, all right, normal, robust, hale, vigorous, well, hearty, husky, athletic, stout, lusty, rosy-cheeked, potent, hardy, able-bodied, virile, muscular, blooming, sturdy, safe and sound, in good condition, in sound condition, combat-ready, in full possession of one's faculties, in good health, enjoying good health, possessing good health, full of pep, never feeling better, as well as can be expected, bursting with health, fresh, of a sound constitution, whole, healthful, firm, stout, unimpaired, buxom, lively, undecayed, flourishing, good, ruddy, cured, fit, clear-eyed, plump, full of life and vigor, spirited, in fine fettle, burly, restored, tough, youthful, sound of wind and limb, free from disease, free from infirmity, in fine whack*, fine*, bobbish*, at the peak of good health*, fine and dandy*, hunky-dory*, chipper*, in good shape*, sound as a bell*, in fine feather*, in the pink*, rugged*, fit as a fiddle*, sound as a dollar*, looking like a million*, fit and fine*, full of beans*, feeling one's oats*, hard as nails*; see also sane 1, strong 1.

    Antonyms unhealthy*, ill*, diseased. *

  2. Healthful

    salubrious, salutary, wholesome; see healthful.


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healthy Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • mentally: One of the most mentally healthy events I've ever attended.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • keep: We are bombarded today with all sorts of advice on keeping the heart healthy.

Modifies a noun

  • eating: Featured sites about Healthy Eating: Surgery Door - Healthy Eating.. .

Used with adjective complement

  • stay: Getting help Your midwife or GP will be able to offer advice on how to stay healthy during pregnancy.

Preposition: in

  • mind: Soldiers complete their missions in Kabul and return home, healthy in mind and body, to their homes in Europe and North America.
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healthy quotes

   Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.

-Ford, Henry

Klassisch ist das Gesunde, romantisch das Kranke. The classical period was healthy; the romantic diseased.

-Goethe,JohannWolfgang von

Le bonheur est salutaire pour les corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui de¤  veloppe les forces de l'esprit. Happiness is healthy for the body, but it is sorrow which enhances the forces of the mind.

-Proust, Marcel

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