Healthy

  • 1healthy — health‧y [ˈhelθi] adjective 1. a healthy organization, system, economy etc is working effectively and successfully: • Banks should invest only in financially healthy companies. 2. a healthy amount of something is large: • They are predicting… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 2healthy — 1 *healthful, wholesome, salubrious, salutary, hygienic, sanitary Analogous words: & Contrasted words: see those at HEALTHFUL 2 Healthy, sound, wholesome, robust, hale, well are comparable when meaning having or manifesting health of mind or body …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 3Healthy — 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… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 4healthy — ► ADJECTIVE (healthier, healthiest) 1) having or promoting good health. 2) normal, sensible, or desirable: a healthy balance. 3) of a very satisfactory size or amount: a healthy profit. DERIVATIVES healthily adverb healthiness no …

    English terms dictionary

  • 5healthy — [hel′thē] adj. healthier, healthiest 1. having good health; well; sound 2. showing or resulting from good health [a healthy color] 3. HEALTHFUL 4. Informal large, vigorous, etc. [a healthy yell] healthily …

    English World dictionary

  • 6healthy — healthy; un·healthy; …

    English syllables

  • 7healthy — index salubrious, salutary, strong Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 8healthy — 1550s, from HEALTH (Cf. health) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Slightly earlier in the same sense was healthsome (1530s). Related: Healthiness …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 9healthy */*/*/ — UK [ˈhelθɪ] / US adjective Word forms healthy : adjective healthy comparative healthier superlative healthiest 1) physically strong and not ill a healthy baby Exercise can be fun, and being healthy feels great! feel healthy: I feel very healthy… …

    English dictionary

  • 10healthy — health|y [ helθi ] adjective *** 1. ) physically strong and not sick: a healthy baby Exercise can be fun, and being healthy feels great. feel healthy: I feel very healthy at the moment. stay/keep healthy: I try to stay as healthy as possible. a ) …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English