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Adjective: healthy (healthier,healthiest)  hel-thee
  1. Having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease
    "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"
     
  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";
    - salubrious, good for you
     
  4. Exercising or showing good judgment
    "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labour and management";
    - intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound
     
  5. Large in amount, extent or degree
    "a healthy amount";
    - goodly, goodish, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy [informal]

Derived forms: healthier, healthiest

See also: anicteric, bouncing, considerable, firm, fit, florid, flushed, full-blooded, good, hale, health, hearty, lusty, reasonable, red-blooded, robust, rock-loving, rose-cheeked, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine, sensible, sound, sun-loving, water-loving, well, wellness, well-preserved, whole, wholesome

Antonym: unhealthy

Encyclopedia: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise