'Healthy' definitions:
Definition of 'healthy'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy" [ant: unhealthy]
adjective
Financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"
adjective
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" [syn: healthy, salubrious, good for you(p)]
adjective
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" [syn: healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound]
adjective
Definition of 'Healthy'
From: GCIDE
- Healthy \Health"y\ (-[y^]), a. [Compar. Healthier (-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Healthiest.]
- 1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant. [1913 Webster]
- His mind was now in a firm and healthy state. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
- Syn: Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'healthy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advantageous,
- alive and kicking,
- auspicious,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- big,
- bon,
- bonny,
- bracing,
- braw,
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,
- bueno,
- bumper,
- bunkum,
- capital,
- chipper,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- considerable,
- constitutional,
- elegant,
- enjoying health,
- estimable,
- eupeptic,
- excellent,
- expedient,
- fair,
- famous,
- favorable,
- fine,
- fit,
- fit and fine,
- flourishing,
- full of beans,
- good,
- good for,
- goodly,
- grand,
- great,
- hale,
- hale and hearty,
- health-enhancing,
- health-preserving,
- healthful,
- helpful,
- hygeian,
- hygienic,
- in condition,
- in fine fettle,
- in fine whack,
- in good case,
- in good health,
- in good shape,
- in health,
- in high feather,
- in mint condition,
- in shape,
- in the pink,
- invigorating,
- kind,
- large,
- large-scale,
- laudable,
- man-sized,
- nice,
- noble,
- nourishing,
- numerous,
- nutritious,
- pleasant,
- profitable,
- refreshing,
- regal,
- right,
- robust,
- royal,
- salubrious,
- salutary,
- sane,
- sanitary,
- sizable,
- skillful,
- sound,
- splendid,
- strong,
- sturdy,
- substantial,
- tall,
- thriving,
- tidy,
- tonic,
- trim,
- useful,
- valid,
- very good,
- vigorous,
- virtuous,
- well,
- whole,
- wholesome