healthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlθi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈheld̪i/
rhymes: -ɛlθi
homophone: healthie
Forms: form: healthier
form: more healthy
form: healthiest
form: most healthy
Etymology: From health + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He was father to three healthy kids.
text: a healthy mind in a healthy body
text: Brush regularly to keep your teeth and gums strong and healthy.
text: My fruit trees are looking very healthy.
text: By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
text: At Columbia-Greene, staffers go for the most unadoptable animals to save them from euthanasia. The youngest, healthiest, cutest pets are waiting for you.
ref: 1998, Elizabeth Hess, Lost and Found:
text: Galvanised by this knowledge, the figurine family take to exercise and healthy eating in the park, forming themselves into the key words "Eat" (better), "Move" (more) and "Live" (longer) of the government's urgings and soon the municipal landscape is filled with other happy, healthier families who, incidentally, look even more delicious en masse.
ref: 2009 January 2, Lucy Mangan, “Anti-obesity advert is sweet and easy to digest”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: well
hale
fit
antonyms: unhealthy
glosses: Enjoying good health; free from disease or disorder.
examples: text: A healthy diet can help to maintain proper weight.
text: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref: 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
text: It was heretical to say that protein wasn't healthy, let alone say it promoted cancer.
ref: 2016, T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell, The China Study, revised and expanded edition, BenBella Books, Inc., page 214:
text: Eric Andre: You know, they say if it's gray it's healthy for you.
Jack McBrayer: No one has ever said that.
Hannibal Burress: Only thing gray that you could eat and it'd be healthy for you is, uhh, I think seal meat.
ref: 2016, The Eric Andre Show, season 4, episode 2:
synonyms: healthful
wholesome
nourishing
antonyms: unhealthy
glosses: Conducive to health.
examples: text: Her face had a healthy glow.
glosses: Evincing health.
examples: text: a healthy respect for authority
text: Sam unwrapped the sandwich and took a healthy bite out of the middle.
text: a healthy dislike, a healthy contempt
glosses: Significant, hefty; beneficial.
Synonyms: word: all oak and iron bound
word: buxom
word: fit
word: hail
word: hale
word: hale and hearty
word: healthy
word: in the pink of health
word: lusty
word: sound
word: sound as a barrel
word: sound as a bell
word: well
word: whole
Hyponyms: word: fighting fit
word: uninjured
Derived terms: a healthy body is a healthy mind
early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
healthification
healthify
healthily
healthiness
healthy as a horse
healthy participant effect
healthy user bias
healthy worker bias
heart-healthy
nonhealthy
superhealthy
unhealthy
Related terms: word: heal
word: healing
word: whole
word: capable
word: health