The Collaborative International Dictionary
Healthy \Health"y\ (-[y^]), a. [Compar. Healthier (-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Healthiest.]
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Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant.
His mind was now in a firm and healthy state.
--Macaulay. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.
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Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
Syn: Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: healthy)
WordNet
See healthy
adj. having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy" [ant: unhealthy]
financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"
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)]
physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise" [syn: fit] [ant: unfit]
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]
adj. improved in health or physical condition [syn: fitter]
Usage examples of "healthier".
Humans are generalists, and are healthier when they have varied activities.
Prane was deeply hurt, which Helva found a trifle healthier than heroic self-sacrifice.
Her face had lost its gaunt, wasted look: her hazel eyes had gained a sparkle, her skin a healthier colour, her lips were pink and less pinched.
The swelling receded, and the edges of the terrible gash assumed the healthier color of healing flesh.
It had been one of the great things about having a partner: he or she would keep their flesh free of the parasites so dolphins would be healthier and able to swim faster.
The 90 percent of the mind that is not put to use daily can be tapped for a healthier life whether it be for better physical stamina and health, an improved memory, reduction of tensions, a positive attitude in the tackling of problems, or improvement on the tennis court.
When you see and feel the results after its use you will want to incorporate it into your life, to make it as vital a part of you as all your daily functions, because if you make it an everyday activity you will feel and be healthier, function better and improve on your general well-being.
It is quite dangerous, to say the least, and the more you can work at lifting the pressure and return the halo to its natural shape, the healthier you will be.
We become, in the first place, healthier - one of the greatest boons of all.
People would live longer and healthier lives, and in the distant future might not die at all.
Our baby’s gonna live a much longer and healthier life than you or I will.
Still, by most reasonable measures, society’s becoming more open, healthier, and more democratic throughout the world.
As matters stand now, it is much, much healthier for you and me to keep to the bargain right up to the hilt.
To say nothing of waking up in a bright new world which would probably promise you a much longer and healthier old age in which to enjoy the thousand a month?
All the same, he said, “The United States is a better, happier, healthier place than it was before you got here, and we did it all by ourselves.