Word Study
healthy
CIDE DICTIONARY
healthy, a.
- 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." [1913 Webster]
- Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion. [1913 Webster]
- Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
Syn. -- Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
healthy, adj. (healthier, healthiest)
1 having, showing, or promoting good health.
2 beneficial, helpful (a healthy respect for experience).
1 having, showing, or promoting good health.
2 beneficial, helpful (a healthy respect for experience).
Derivative
healthily adv. healthiness n.
THESAURUS
healthy
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, wholesomeROGET THESAURUS
healthy
Health
N health, sanity, soundness, vigor, good health, perfect health, excellent health, rude health, robust health, bloom, mens sana in corpore sano, Hygeia, incorruption, incorruptibility, good state of health, clean bill of health, eupepsia, euphoria, euphory, St. Anthony's fire, healthy, healthful, in health, well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole, florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof, unscathed, uninjured, unmaimed, unmarred, untainted, sound of wind and limb, safe and sound, on one's legs, sound as a roach, sound as a bell, fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, fresh as April, hearty as a buck, in fine feather, in high feather, in good case, in full bloom, pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as well as can be expected, sanitary sanatory, health that snuffs the morning air, non est vivere sed valere vita.Salubrity
N salubrity, healthiness, fine air, fine climate, eudiometer, hygiene, valetudinarian, valetudinarianism, sanitarian, sanitarium, sanitOrium, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, wholesome, healthy, healthful, sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious, hygeian, hygienic, innoxious, innocuous, innocent, harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious, sanative, restorative, useful.For further exploring for "healthy" in Webster Dictionary Online