Crossword clues for healthiest
healthiest
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-superlative 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]
Usage examples of "healthiest".
To show his displeasure he chose the healthiest looking child from their group to send to Mother Ursuline at Rikin Fjord as an acolyte.
Flim flam's spilling his guts: His Highness has rather an ex tensive operation--child labor in his rice paddies and mines, child prostitution, and a child farm where the healthiest are kept that way until someone can pay for the organ they need.
However, a taskmaster far more interesting, for Sharra talked about the properties and virtues of the roots for which they dug, the leaves for which they climbed only the healthiest of trees, well-sheltered from the worst rav ages of Threadfall, or equally elusive herbs that lived ob scurely where other bushes had thorns to scratch.
On Nessel's other side, Laudey of Igen, his face as tanned as Toric's, looked the healthiest of the older group.
What we observed then could have been simply the mutterings of the crackpot minority present in even the healthiest society.
But he measured her as a man measures his horses, wondering which is healthiest and which he might need to kill for food on a hard journey.
Their most sensible reproductive strategy is to deposit it in every available female--and to make special efforts to deposit it in the healthiest females, the ones most likely to bring their offspring to adulthood.
If we can't get that, then our next best strategy is to mate with the strongest and healthiest possible males.
Their most sensible reproductive strategy is to deposit it in every available female-- and to make special efforts to deposit it in the healthiest females, the ones most likely to bring their offspring to adulthood.
The healthiest three were guarding the wagon, looking pale and unhappy.