Definition

1. Adverb:
   • In a manner that promotes or indicates good health; in a physically or mentally sound way. This is the primary meaning, describing actions done to maintain or improve well-being.
   • In a robust, vigorous, or flourishing manner. Used to describe something that is strong, successful, or developing well.
   • Sensibly or moderately; in a level-headed manner. This meaning relates to balanced, reasonable behavior or judgment.

Usage Examples

• Adverb (Promoting good health):
  • She eats very healthily, focusing on fruits and vegetables.
  • To live healthily, you should exercise regularly and get enough sleep.
• Adverb (In a robust/vigorous manner):
  • The business is growing healthily despite economic challenges.
  • A healthily competitive environment can drive innovation.
• Adverb (In a sensible/level-headed manner):
  • He reacted healthily to the criticism, seeing it as a chance to improve.
  • The team has a healthily skeptical attitude towards untested data.

Advanced Usage

• "healthily individual": Distinctly or robustly individual; having a strong sense of independent identity.
  • The artist's style remained healthily individual, refusing to follow trends.
• "healthily distant": Maintaining a sensible or appropriate degree of separation.
  • She keeps a healthily distant relationship with office gossip.

Variants and Related Words

• Healthy (adjective): Having good health; indicative of or conducive to good health.
  • He leads a healthy lifestyle.
• Health (noun): The state of being free from illness or injury; a person's mental or physical condition.
  • Good health is more valuable than wealth.
• Healthfulness (noun): The quality of promoting good health.
  • The healthfulness of the Mediterranean diet is well-known.

Synonyms

• Wholesomely: In a manner conducive to or suggestive of good health and well-being.
• Vigorously: In a way that involves physical strength, effort, or energy; robustly.
• Sensibly: In a reasonable, practical, and logical manner.

Related Phrases

• To think healthily about something: To have a balanced, constructive, and positive perspective.
  • It's important to think healthily about past failures and learn from them.
• A healthily balanced diet: A diet that provides adequate nutrition and variety in a sensible way.
  • The doctor recommended a healthily balanced diet for long-term wellness.

Related Idioms

• A healthily skeptical attitude: An appropriate level of doubt that prevents gullibility without leading to cynicism.
  • A scientist must maintain a healthily skeptical attitude towards new claims.
• In healthily good shape: In a state of good physical condition.
  • After months of training, he was in healthily good shape for the marathon.

Adverb

1. in a levelheaded manner
   • the answers were healthily individual