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healthy
enjoying good health; hearty; robust: The children are all healthy.
Not to be confused with:
healthful – conducive to health; wholesome: We serve only healthful food.
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health·y
(hĕl′thē)adj. health·i·er, health·i·est
1. Possessing good health: a healthy child.
2. Conducive to good health; healthful: healthy air.
3. Indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind: a healthy attitude.
4. Sizable; considerable: a healthy portion of peas; a healthy raise in salary.
adv.
So as to promote one's health; in a healthy way: If you eat healthy, you'll probably live longer.
health′i·ly adv.
health′i·ness n.
Synonyms: healthy, wholesome, sound2, hale1, robust, well2
These adjectives refer to a state of good physical health. Healthy stresses the absence of disease or infirmity and is used of whole organisms as well as their parts: a healthy baby; flossed daily to promote healthy gums. Wholesome suggests a state of good health associated with youthful vitality or clean living: "In truth, a wholesome, ruddy, blooming creature she was" (Harriet Beecher Stowe).
Healthy and wholesome are often extended to conditions or choices deemed conducive to good health: a healthy lifestyle; wholesome foods. Sound emphasizes freedom from injury, imperfection, or impairment: "The man with the toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound" (George Bernard Shaw).
Hale stresses freedom from infirmity, especially in elderly persons, while robust emphasizes healthy strength and ruggedness: "He is pretty well advanced in years, but hale, robust, and florid" (Tobias Smollett).
Well indicates absence of or recovery from illness: felt well enough to make the trip.
These adjectives refer to a state of good physical health. Healthy stresses the absence of disease or infirmity and is used of whole organisms as well as their parts: a healthy baby; flossed daily to promote healthy gums. Wholesome suggests a state of good health associated with youthful vitality or clean living: "In truth, a wholesome, ruddy, blooming creature she was" (Harriet Beecher Stowe).
Healthy and wholesome are often extended to conditions or choices deemed conducive to good health: a healthy lifestyle; wholesome foods. Sound emphasizes freedom from injury, imperfection, or impairment: "The man with the toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound" (George Bernard Shaw).
Hale stresses freedom from infirmity, especially in elderly persons, while robust emphasizes healthy strength and ruggedness: "He is pretty well advanced in years, but hale, robust, and florid" (Tobias Smollett).
Well indicates absence of or recovery from illness: felt well enough to make the trip.
Usage Note: Some people insist on maintaining a distinction between the words healthy and healthful. In this view, healthful means "conducive to good health" and is applied to things that promote health, while healthy means "possessing good health," and is applied solely to people and other organisms. Accordingly, healthy people have healthful habits. However, healthy has been used to mean "healthful" since the 1500s, as in this example from John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education: "Gardening ... and working in wood, are fit and healthy recreations for a man of study or business." In fact, the word healthy is far more common than healthful when modifying words like diet, exercise, and foods, and healthy may strike many readers as more natural in many contexts. Certainly, both healthy and healthful must be considered standard in describing that which promotes health.
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healthy
(ˈhɛlθɪ)adj, healthier or healthiest
1. enjoying good health
2. functioning well or being sound: the company's finances are not very healthy.
3. conducive to health; salutary
4. indicating soundness of body or mind: a healthy appetite.
5. informal considerable in size or amount: a healthy sum.
ˈhealthily adv
ˈhealthiness n
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health•y
(ˈhɛl θi)adj. health•i•er, health•i•est.
1. possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of good health, or a sound and vigorous mind.
3. conducive to good health.
4. prosperous: a healthy business.
5. fairly large: I bought a healthy number of books.
[1545–55]
health′i•ly, adv.
health′i•ness, n.
syn: healthy, healthful, wholesome refer to physical, mental, or moral health and well-being. healthy most often applies to what possesses health, but may apply to what promotes health: a healthy child; a healthy climate. healthful is usu. applied to something conducive to physical health: a healthful diet. wholesome, connoting freshness and purity, applies to something that is physically or morally beneficial: wholesome food; wholesome entertainment.
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healthy
- healthy, healthful - Healthy is a positive descriptive of a person's (or personified thing's) physical state; healthful is used of something that favorably affects or promotes that state.
- vegete - Describing something healthy and active, flourishing in respect to health and vigor.
- orthorexia - An obsession with eating only "healthy" food.
- insane, insanity - Latin sanus, "healthy," is part of insane and insanity.
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| Adj. | 1. | healthy - having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy" fit - physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise" robust - sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction; "a robust body"; "a robust perennial" well - in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury; "appears to be entirely well"; "the wound is nearly well"; "a well man"; "I think I'm well; at least I feel well" wholesome - conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food" unhealthy - not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers" |
| 2. | healthy - financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy" sound - financially secure and safe; "sound investments"; "a sound economy" | |
| 3. | healthy - 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" wholesome - conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food" | |
| 4. | healthy - 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" reasonable, sensible - showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person" | |
| 5. | healthy - 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" considerable - large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree; "a considerable quantity"; "the economy was a considerable issue in the campaign"; "went to considerable trouble for us"; "spent a considerable amount of time on the problem" |
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healthy
adjective
1. well, sound, fit, strong, active, flourishing, hardy, blooming, robust, vigorous, sturdy, hale, hearty, in good shape (informal), in good condition, in the pink, alive and kicking, fighting fit, in fine form, in fine fettle, hale and hearty, fit as a fiddle (informal), right as rain (Brit. informal), physically fit, in fine feather She had a normal pregnancy and delivered a healthy child.
well ill, sick, poorly (informal), diseased, weak, delicate, crook (Austral. & N.Z. informal), fragile, ailing, frail, unfit, feeble, unhealthy, debilitated, sickly, unwell, weedy (informal), unsound, infirm, at death's door
well ill, sick, poorly (informal), diseased, weak, delicate, crook (Austral. & N.Z. informal), fragile, ailing, frail, unfit, feeble, unhealthy, debilitated, sickly, unwell, weedy (informal), unsound, infirm, at death's door
2. wholesome, beneficial, nourishing, good for you, nutritious, salutary, hygienic, healthful, salubrious, health-giving a healthy diet
wholesome unhealthy, unwholesome
wholesome unhealthy, unwholesome
3. invigorating, bracing, beneficial, good for you, salutary, healthful, salubrious a healthy outdoor pursuit
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
healthy
adjective1. Having good health:
Idioms: fit as a fiddle, hale and hearty, in fine fettle.
2. Promoting good health:
3. Notably above average in amount, size, or scope:
Informal: tidy.
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Translations
zdravý
sundfornuftiggodrask
sanasani
terveterveellinenhyvinvoivareilu
zdrav
heilbrigîurheilnæmur, styrkjandihraustlegur
ヘルシーな健康な
건강에 좋은건강한
sanus
zdravzdravilen
hälsosamnyttig
ดีต่อสุขภาพมีสุขภาพดี
khỏe mạnhtốt cho sức khỏe
healthy
[ˈhelθɪ] ADJ (healthier (compar) (healthiest (superl)))1. (= normal) [person, plant, cell, mind] → sano; [skin, hair] → sano, saludable; [society] → que goza de buena salud
to be healthy [person] → tener buena salud → estar sano
to look healthy → tener un aspecto saludable
to have a healthy appetite → tener buen apetito
to be healthy [person] → tener buena salud → estar sano
to look healthy → tener un aspecto saludable
to have a healthy appetite → tener buen apetito
3. (= thriving) [economy, company] → próspero
4. (= substantial) [profit] → pingüe; [bank account] → sustancioso
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
healthy
[ˈhɛlθi] adj [skin, heart, teeth, gums] → sain(e)
[appetite] → solide
(= financially) [profit, company] → sain(e); [bank account] → bien approvisionné(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
healthy
adj (+er) (lit, fig) → gesund; a healthy mind in a healthy body → ein gesunder Geist in einem gesunden Körper; to earn a healthy profit → einen ansehnlichen Gewinn machen; he has a healthy bank balance → sein Kontostand ist gesund; a healthy dose of something → ein gesundes Maß an etw (dat); that’s not a healthy idea/attitude → das ist keine vernünftige Idee/gesunde Haltung; to have a healthy respect for somebody/something → einen gesunden Respekt vor jdm/etw haben; a healthy interest in something → ein gesundes Interesse an etw (dat)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
healthy
[ˈhɛlθɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (person) → sano/a, in buona salute; (skin, diet, attitude) → sano/a; (air, place, climate) → salubre; (appetite) → robusto/a; (exercise, food) (fig) (respect) → salutare; (interest) → vivace; (economy) → florido/a; (bank balance) → in attivoCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
health
(helθ) noun1. the state of being well or ill. He is in good/poor health.
2. the state of being well. I may be getting old, but so long as I keep my health, I'll be happy.
ˈhealthy adjective1. (generally) having good health. I'm rarely ill – I'm really a very healthy person; My bank balance is healthier now than it used to be.
2. causing or helping to produce good health. a healthy climate.
3. resulting from good health. a healthy appetite.
4. showing a sensible concern for one's own well-being etc. He shows a healthy respect for the law.
ˈhealthiness nounˈhealth maintenance organization noun
(abbreviation HMO) (American) a system of health centers providing medical treatment, preventive care and hospitalization to its paying members.
health service (the organization which runs) all the medical services of a country which are available to the public.
drink (to) someone's health to drink a toast to someone, wishing him good health.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
healthy
→ صِحِّيّ , صِحِّيّ zdravý sund gesund υγιής saludable , sano terve , terveellinen sain zdrav sano ヘルシーな , 健康な 건강에 좋은 , 건강한 gezond sunn zdrowy saudável здоровый hälsosam , nyttig ดีต่อสุขภาพ , มีสุขภาพดี sağlıklı khỏe mạnh , tốt cho sức khỏe 健康的Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
health·y
a. sano-a, saludable, fornido-a.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
healthy
adj (comp -ier; super -iest) sano, saludable; [Note: sano and saludable are often used interchangeably, but sano usually applies to people and connotes sound or not ill, while saludable applies to people and also things which promote health, and is more positive. An overweight man who smokes and eats junk food could be sano, but few would call him saludable.]English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.