healthy

[health·y]

Healthy means having good health. It's the opposite of sick, but also can mean "doing well" in a general sense. You can have a healthy attitude, or be served a healthy portion of food.

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Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.

Adjective
physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise"

Adjective
having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"

Adjective S.
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 advi

Adjective S.
financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"

Adjective S.
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"

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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.


Healthy

Health"y , a. [Compar. Healthier ; superl. Healthiest.] 1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.
His mind was now in a firm and healthy state.
2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion. 3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate. Syn. -- Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary.

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.

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Usage Examples

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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Other Usage Examples

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.

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