Healthy
['helθɪ] or ['hɛlθi]
Definition
(adj.) having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; 'a rosy healthy baby'; 'staying fit and healthy' .
(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 sound explanation for his decision' .
(adj.) financially secure and functioning well; 'a healthy economy' .
(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' .
Editor: Trudy--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.
(superl.) Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.
(superl.) Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
Editor: Shelton
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Sound, hale, hearty, vigorous, well, in good health, in good case.[2]. Wholesome, salubrious, salutary, healthful, health-giving.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vigorous, sound, robust, strong, hale, salubrious, wholesome, hearty,healthful
ANT:Unhealthy, unsound, weak, delicate, fragile, noxious, pernicious, insalubrious
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Examples
- Assuredly, pleasant enough: but whether healthy or not is another question. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If a laughing eye with a lively light, and a face bright with beaming and healthy energy, could attest that he was better, better he certainly was. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Moreover, the healthy spirits who had mounted to this sublime height were attractive to many of the Gradgrind school. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- And he added: So far as the central essence of this feeling goes, no healthy minded person, it seems to me, can help to some degree partaking of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Was Mr. Staunton a healthy man? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- That there was any Fancy in them demanding to be brought into healthy existence instead of struggling on in convulsions? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Moreover, we know nowadays that even a universal education of this sort supplies only the basis for a healthy republican state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is this a healthy place to live in, Richard, do you think? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But I always think Middlemarch a very healthy spot. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You live in a different world to me, Mr. Overton--a sweeter and healthier one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Indeed, I believe it would be healthier there. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- To the very end of the story the divinity of kings haunted the Egyptian mind, and infected the thoughts of intellectually healthier races. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is no finer air and no healthier soil in the world! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have been long enough away from my journal to come back to it with a healthier and better mind, I hope, so far as Sir Percival is concerned. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It's the healthiest thing in the world in all respects, and particularly for the lungs. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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