Healthy

English

Adjective

Healthy (comparative healthier, superlative healthiest)

1. Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.

   He was father to three healthy kids.

2. Conducive to health.

   A healthy diet and exercise can help to maintain proper weight.

3. Evincing health.

   Sam unwrapped the sandwich and took a healthy bite out of the middle.

4. (figuratively) Significant, hefty; beneficial.

   Healthy spankings never fail to restore a rascal's healthy respect for his educators, said dad while he gave Paul a healthy belting over the knee

Adverbs for Healthy

robustly; normally; unusually; admirably; wonderfully; fortunately; tolerably; fundamentally; comparatively; altogether; completely; buoyantly; vigorously; radiantly; gloriously; exuberantly; sturdily; happily; constitutionally; remarkably; excellently; magnificently; splendidly.

Synonyms for Healthy

• (conducive to health): healthful
• sound, salubrious, wholesome, strong, robust, hale, vigorous, virile, well, hearty, unimpaired, lusty, invigorating, bracing, beneficial, nutritious, innocuous, harmless, sanitary, healing, hygienic,

Antonyms for Healthy

unhealthy, bad, insalubrious, corrupt, mephitic, rotten, noisome, pestilential, septic, deadly, noxious, unsound, invalid, deleterious, wasted, weak, worn, emaciated, frail, fragile.

Derived terms

• healthily
• healthiness

Related terms

• heal
• healing
• whole

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

health

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhɛl.θi/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlθi

Translations

enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well

Croatian: zdrȁv (hr) Czech: zdravý (cs) m. Dutch: gezond (nl) Esperanto: sana (eo) Finnish: terve (fi), hyvinvoiva (fi) French: sain (fr), en bonne santé (fr) German: gesund (de) Greek: υγιής (el) (=ygiís) m., γερός (el) (gerós) m. Irish: folláin (ga), sláintiúil (ga) Japanese: 健康な (kenkou na), x (ja) (tasscha na) Latin: sanus (la) Latvian: vesels (lv), veselīgs (lv) Lithuanian: sveikas (lt) Macedonian: здрав (mk) (zdrav) m.

Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: съдравъ (sŭdravŭ) Glagolitic: ⰔⰟⰄⰓⰀⰂⰟ (sŭdravŭ) Old French: sain Portuguese: saudável (pt) m. and f. Romanian: sănătos (ro) Russian: здоровый (ru) (zdoróvyj) Scots: hailsome Slovene: zdrav (sl) Spanish: saludable (es), sano (es) m. Welsh: iach (cy)

conducive to health

Croatian: zdrȁv (hr) Czech: zdravý (cs) m. Dutch: gezond (nl) Finnish: terveellinen (fi) German: gesund (de) Greek: υγιεινός (el) (ygieinós) m. Japanese: 健康的な (kenkouteki na)

Latin: sanus (la) Latvian: veselīgs (lv) Lithuanian: sveikas (lt), sveikatingas (lt) Macedonian: здрав (mk) (zdrav) m. Portuguese: saudável (pt) m. and f. Russian: здоровый (ru) (zdoróvyj), полезный (ru) (pol'éznyj) Slovene: zdrav (sl) Spanish: saludable (es), sano (es) m.

evincing health

Croatian: zdrȁv (hr) Dutch: hartig (nl) Finnish: reilu (fi) French: sain (fr), en bonne santé (fr)

German: gesund (de), anständig (de) Macedonian: здрав (mk) (zdrav) m. Spanish: saludable (es), sano (es) m.

significant, hefty

Dutch: gezond, deugdelijk, duchtig, hartig Finnish: terve (fi)

Greek: εύρωστος (el) (évrostos) m. Macedonian: здрав (mk) (zdrav) m.

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Esperanto: sana Italian: sano Korean: 건강한 Norwegian: frisk

Portuguese: saudável m/f Spanish: sano Tagalog: malusog Maigi, Yanu Telugu: ఆరోగ్యవంతమైన (aarOgyakaramaina), ఆరోగ్యకరమైన (aarOgyavaMtamaina)

External links

• Healthy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Healthy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911