Healthy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              His mind was now in a firm and healthy state.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy
        complexion.
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     3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as,
        a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
  
     Syn: Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome;
          salutary.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  healthy
       adj 1: having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from
              infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying
              fit and healthy" [ant: {unhealthy}]
       2: financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"
       3: 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: {salubrious}, {good for you(p)}]
       4: physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and
          fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and
          exercise" [syn: {fit}] [ant: {unfit}]
       5: 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: {intelligent}, {levelheaded}, {sound}]
       [also: {healthiest}, {healthier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
     wholesome