healthy
/'helθi/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease: Describes a person, animal, or plant that is physically and/or mentally well.
- Promoting health; healthful: Describes things, conditions, or activities that are good for one's health and contribute to well-being.
- Financially secure and functioning well: Describes systems, organizations, or economies that are strong, stable, and operating successfully.
- Large in amount or extent or degree; substantial: (Informal) Used to emphasize that something is impressively or desirably large.
Examples of Usage
- Having good health:
- She is a healthy child who rarely gets sick.
- After recovering from the flu, he finally feels healthy again.
- Promoting health:
- They try to maintain a healthy diet with lots of vegetables.
- The mountain air is clean and healthy.
- Functioning well:
- The company reported healthy profits this quarter.
- A healthy democracy depends on an informed citizenry.
- Substantial (informal):
- He inherited a healthy sum of money from his grandfather.
- Add a healthy dose of olive oil to the sauce.
Advanced Usage
- "healthy respect/fear/skepticism": A sensible and prudent level of caution or doubt, often based on an awareness of potential risks.
- You should have a healthy respect for the power of the ocean.
- A healthy skepticism of online claims is advisable.
- "healthy attitude/relationship": A positive, balanced, and constructive way of thinking or interacting.
- They have a very healthy working relationship.
- It's important to develop a healthy attitude towards competition.
Variants and Related Words
- Healthily (adverb): In a healthy manner.
- The children were playing healthily outdoors.
- Healthiness (noun): The state or quality of being healthy.
- The healthiness of the local population has improved.
Synonyms
- Fit: In good physical condition, especially as a result of exercise.
- Well: In good health.
- Wholesome: Conducive to or suggestive of good health and physical well-being.
- Robust: Strong and healthy; vigorous.
- Sound: In good condition; solid, secure, or reliable (can apply to health, arguments, finances, etc.).
Related Phrases
- Safe and sound: Unharmed and healthy, especially after a dangerous experience.
- The hikers returned from the storm safe and sound.
- Hale and hearty: (Especially of an old person) strong and healthy.
- My grandfather is still hale and hearty at ninety.
Adjective
- large in amount or extent or degree
- it cost a considerable amount
- a goodly amount
- received a hefty bonus
- a respectable sum
- a tidy sum of money
- a sizable fortune
- 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
- 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
- financially secure and functioning well
- a healthy economy
- having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease
- a rosy healthy baby
- staying fit and healthy