Crossword clues for healthy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
healthy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fresh/healthy complexion (=healthy and clean)
▪ a young man with a fresh complexion
a good/healthy appetite
▪ Growing children should have a healthy appetite.
a good/healthy balance
▪ You should eat a good balance of carbohydrates and protein.
▪ Are you eating a healthy balance of foods?
a healthy alternative
▪ Low-fat biscuits are a healthy alternative to cake.
a healthy disrespect (=that you think is good)
▪ Damien has always had a healthy disrespect for media opinion.
a healthy eater (=someone who eats healthy food)
▪ Do you think healthy eaters live longer?
a healthy infant
▪ Amy gave birth to a healthy infant.
a healthy lifestyle
▪ A healthy lifestyle includes taking exercise and not smoking.
a healthy meal
▪ Healthy meals can still be quick and easy to prepare.
a healthy state (=a good state)
▪ Student numbers at the college are in a healthy state.
a healthy/handsome/tidy profit (=big)
▪ By the second year, the restaurant began to make a healthy profit.
good/healthy/clear (=smooth and without any red spots)
▪ Vitamin E helps keep your skin healthy.
have a healthy/simple etc lifestyle
▪ We had very different lifestyles.
healthy glow
▪ She had a healthy glow in her cheeks.
healthy
▪ We try to give the kids good healthy food.
healthy
▪ Eating oily fish can help maintain a healthy heart.
healthy/good
▪ A healthy diet includes plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
lead a healthy/simple etc lifestyle (=live in a particular way)
▪ You can change your eating habits and lead a healthier lifestyle.
live a healthy/simple etc lifestyle
▪ I had enough money to live a lavish lifestyle.
live a quiet/active/healthy etc life
▪ She lives a very busy life.
strong/healthy/sound
▪ The new government inherited a strong economy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ As at home, your diet is as healthy and balanced as you make it - it's up to you.
▪ If you lose weight, will you be as healthy as a person who was never fat to begin with?
▪ Cuckney regards such managerial mobility as healthy.
▪ They may not be as healthy as the makers would like you to think.
▪ Norweb is paying a higher interim dividend, up from 5.3p to 5.9p and the final should be just as healthy.
▪ He should be encouraged to think of sport as healthy exercise done for fun, rather than for competition.
▪ A girl as healthy as it was possible to imagine and yet there, undoubtedly, was the expression of hunger.
▪ The other two, nearly five years later, are as healthy as ever.
more
▪ Policy implications Current evidence indicates that older people are more healthy than popular stereotypes suggest.
▪ We got one who is younger and more healthy.
▪ Would you like to be more healthy?
▪ Not only that, but 76% are actually doing something about it and gradually introducing more healthy foods into their diets.
▪ More and more healthy women who have prepared carefully for childbirth will be told that they have to undergo a Caesarean.
▪ Perhaps they were simply more healthy or more fertile.
▪ Change the family's diet to low-fat and more healthy eating. 2.
▪ She vowed to use more healthy images.
much
▪ Why should popular opinion hold that brown bread or brown sugar are so much healthier than the refined, white versions?
▪ Whether you're shopping, going to work or travelling for pleasure, it's a lot cheaper and much healthier!
▪ That's partly because the company is much healthier and more robust now.
▪ It's all looking much healthier now but time is still a major factor.
▪ These industries are now having to compete in the private sector and are much healthier for it.
otherwise
▪ Periodically there are press reports of otherwise healthy individuals who need no sleep at all.
▪ The nonsmoking, sedentary men involved in the study were 20 percent to 60 percent over ideal weight, but otherwise healthy.
▪ Wang's face and lips were scarred from his burn wounds, but he appeared otherwise healthy.
▪ At that rate, 3 million of those otherwise healthy people will develop heart disease in the next 10 years.
▪ As the fish is still feeding, and appears to be otherwise healthy, I would suggest leaving it alone.
▪ It has caused few, if any, deaths among otherwise healthy people.
▪ The result looked like an insidious, grey-green growth lopped off an otherwise healthy young tree to protect its trunk.
▪ The swarming lampreys consume not only dead or sickly fish but set upon otherwise healthy ones.
perfectly
▪ She looked perfectly healthy, but Frankie was not convinced.
▪ He denied that perfectly healthy horses make it to slaughter because he can make more by reselling to somebody else.
▪ Given just one type of seed, they would always eat it and be perfectly healthy.
▪ But necrotizing fasciitis can strike perfectly healthy, fastidious people as well.
▪ However, one of them disappeared overnight, after being perfectly healthy during the day.
▪ Yes, but this is not the explanation in many cases, where the animal is perfectly healthy in all other respects.
▪ This does not necessarily mean sick animals - many are perfectly healthy, just unwanted.
▪ A kidney, thought to be perfectly healthy was transplanted into a patient on chronic dialysis.
very
▪ The chicks need round the clock attention, and have developed very healthy appetites.
▪ He was termed a very healthy individual.
▪ With a little knowledge you can make very healthy changes to your diet without having to alter radically your whole way of eating.
▪ His breathing was always audible; for all his size and apparent strength, he did not seem to be very healthy.
▪ On examination there was little abnormal to see, the cervix looked very healthy and there was no excess of vaginal discharge.
▪ Parslina is very healthy, she has no germs.
▪ Arguably, the Club has set the standards for other to follow - and very healthy it looks on them too.
▪ I too am very healthy, as they can see.
■ NOUN
appetite
▪ The chicks need round the clock attention, and have developed very healthy appetites.
▪ A high-powered grill that has a healthy appetite for the biggest brunch.
baby
▪ You and Charles are going to have a beautiful, healthy baby.
▪ Her arms and face have the appealing plumpness of a healthy baby.
▪ The woman later gave birth to a healthy baby in a subsequent pregnancy.
▪ We are just so happy to have four healthy babies.
▪ It keeps you fit and helps you to have a healthy baby.
▪ Marge Owen had delivered a healthy baby girl.
body
▪ Integral to this research was an understanding of how the healthy body provided its own defences against invading bacteria by developing anti-toxins.
▪ That gave him reason to turn his personal devotion to a healthy body into a crusade.
▪ Salt Sodium chloride is found naturally in many foods and is essential for a healthy body.
▪ If you just eat less, you are less likely to get all the nutrition you need to build a healthy body.
▪ I inherited a large fortune, a strong healthy body and an excellent mind.
▪ Healthy minds in healthy bodies, yes.
child
▪ Childhood cancers, including leukaemia, can strike a healthy child at random, regardless of race, social background or creed.
▪ From the very beginning I was an extraordinarily healthy child.
▪ I think anything that helps to deliver a healthy child is to be welcomed, not feared.
▪ A: It may take good detective skills to determine the cause of sudden severe ear pain in a healthy child.
▪ She had her first operation when she was 21 days old and has never experienced the life of a healthy child.
▪ All these infants did become healthy children with intact self-identity.
▪ Children who suffer from prolonged ill-health inevitably benefit less from education than healthy children.
▪ Educated women have healthier children and enjoy better health themselves.
control
▪ The healthy control group received no additional treatment.
▪ Fundic argyrophil cell densities in patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome were compared with previously published values in 10 healthy control subjects.
▪ The values were compared with findings in 10 healthy controls.
▪ Patients with idiopathic chronic constipation have a decreased number and duration of giant migrating complexes than healthy controls.
diet
▪ Of these, the most important to a healthy diet are starches and fibre.
▪ Are supplements really a con or can they be an essential addition to a healthy diet? of dosage for supplements.
▪ Feed on a healthy diet of positive, encouraging, hopeful thoughts.
▪ So could better information about a healthy diet.
▪ We had vitamin tablets-we even had doctors telling us that eating a healthy diet made more sense than gulping pills.
▪ It's only natural to worry about whether your child is getting a healthy diet.
▪ I told Willett I eat a healthy diet.
eating
▪ After the annual over-indulgence your New Year resolutions will probably include healthy eating.
▪ Adjust cooking methods for healthier eating.
▪ It includes everything you need to know about healthy eating, sport and exercise, along with tips on looking good and relaxation.
▪ Healthy eating is in, and there is plenty of advice available about what is healthy eating.
▪ Simplesse - the way forward for healthy eating?
▪ Rather than concentrate on restrictions it is much easier, at least initially, to consider the positive aspect of healthy eating.
▪ You need to have detailed information to help you plan your goals for healthier eating and weight control.
▪ Healthy growth: The award-winning Yorkshire Heartbeat scheme to promote healthy eating in pubs across Yorkshire is to be extended.
economy
▪ But long-term investors do not guarantee a healthy economy.
▪ Analysts also blamed diminished turnout on the relatively healthy economy.
▪ Further, as a result of a generally healthy economy, employment in service and other industries outside manufacturing firms could increase.
▪ The healthy economy continues to give companies both money and incentive to advertise.
▪ A healthy economy in the 1960s and 1970s created a sizeable and conservative urban middle class.
▪ Like a good cake, a healthy economy should have some springiness, some resiliency.
environment
▪ The issues involved in a healthy environment grow year by year.
▪ But we can combat germs and bacteria and provide a healthier environment for our loved ones with the help of Dettol.
▪ My greatest aspiration is to work towards a clean healthy environment for all humanity.
▪ The effective teaching of history requires first and foremost a healthy environment in which to flourish.
▪ By protecting them we ensure a healthy environment - for ourselves and our children as well as for the wildlife.
▪ In modern societies living in a healthy environment, the difference is slight.
▪ They shout, sing and hold their placards high, demanding the right to a clean, safe, healthy environment.
▪ Through their own efforts they have created a happier, healthier environment for their children.
food
▪ The diet is a wholesome one; healthy foods such as salads, wholemeal bread and semi-skimmed milk are used.
▪ She advocates the idea of creating gardens that feed themselves, an organic process she believes produces healthier food and flowers.
▪ I have the sense to choose nutritious, healthy food, and I am lasting pretty well.
▪ They both loved to cook, and especially loved to cook what they considered healthy food.
▪ It is now established as a healthy food, with popular appeal for the ever-growing numbers of health-conscious diners.
▪ Check your diet against healthy food recommendations and adjust where necessary.
▪ Information Shops should provide greater information on healthy foods at the point of sale.
▪ It should be scrapped and replaced by a sustainable system of healthy food production.
individual
▪ The healthy individual has no compulsive morality because he has no impulses which call for moral inhibition.
▪ He was termed a very healthy individual.
▪ Measurements of disease-incidence; the welfare of diseased individuals is clearly not as good as that of healthy individuals.
▪ In most healthy individuals body temperature begins to rise during the last few hours of sleep just before they awaken.
▪ When stocking a pool with fish, take care to select healthy individuals with firm, meaty bodies and erect dorsal fins.
▪ The heart association also suggested that healthy individuals limit eggs to four or fewer a week.
▪ More undigested food molecules pass through the gut wall than in healthy individuals, making food intolerance much more likely.
▪ But most types of children can be emotionally healthy individuals and can become wonderful parents.
life
▪ Compulsory retirement for all at a fixed age is no longer appropriate as people live longer and healthier lives.
▪ We will teach you that they can be very necessary components in an emotionally healthy life.
▪ On this theory one year of healthy life is taken to be worth 1.
▪ Today, people are living longer and healthier lives.
▪ For Britain, babies born last year can expect 71.7 years of healthy life.
▪ The discovery of insulin in 1921 would have lifted that sentence and offered him a long and reasonably healthy life.
▪ They've been given a better education, a longer and healthier life and higher expectations, but no future.
▪ The situation improved, but regular food rations were still barely sufficient to sustain a healthy life.
lifestyle
▪ Expert groups in many Western countries have already decided to lobby for changes towards a healthier lifestyle without waiting for results.
▪ A balanced diet and daily physical exercise are the keys to a healthy lifestyle.
▪ We recognize, too, that a healthy lifestyle contributes more to looking good than skilfully used cosmetics.
▪ The borough council has drawn up the programme in a bid to highlight the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.
▪ Programme LUNCH/ZMU/2/11/93 Well it's time for an unscheduled visit to one of our healthy lifestyle volunteers.
▪ Media coverage of issues relating to a healthy lifestyle is certainly extensive, but can be confusing.
▪ He hopes to influence thousands of children and young people to adopt healthy lifestyles.
▪ We also explain how you can revolutionise your eating habits and lead a healthier lifestyle.
man
▪ The healthy person was also the healthy man.
▪ A healthy man to put himself into a sickbed of his own accord.
▪ In healthy men without atrophy, gastric acid secretion is preserved with ageing and is independent of H pylori status.
▪ They were the healthiest men Fong had ever laid eyes on.
▪ Sir Henry was a young and healthy man.
▪ Similarly, basal serum gastrin concentrations do not alter with ageing in healthy men.
▪ This effect of symmetry was indistinguishable from that observed in the speeded responses of two age-matched, neurologically healthy men.
▪ Five normal healthy men were selected as controls for the study.
people
▪ In this way normal healthy people may be tested without inducing any damage in their brain.
▪ I watched all the healthy people walk up and down with their limbs intact and the flesh still covering their bones.
▪ In addition, tonics from plants can be used preventively by healthy people, as our grandparents may attest.
▪ That concentration, greater than on a highway during rush hour, would not cause even a headache in most healthy people.
▪ But do we need it, will it make our lives better, will we be healthier people as a result.
▪ The bug, called enterococcus, lives in the nasal passages and intestines of many healthy people, causing no harm.
▪ But that same enzyme system is defective in 20 percent of normal, healthy people.
▪ It is a picture, says Kevorkian, of how most normal, healthy people view dying.
person
▪ The healthy person was also the healthy man.
▪ I am a thin, healthy person.
▪ Being a healthy person, I immediately told myself this could not refer to me.
▪ They also can attack a healthy person who might become infected through a foot wound, for example.
▪ Any healthy person will think like this.
▪ Hahnemann discovered that certain remedies caused particular symptoms in a healthy person.
▪ In the normal, healthy person the gut flora is a balanced community of different organisms.
▪ It states that a substance causing certain symptoms in a healthy person can cure a sick person with the same symptoms.
profit
▪ And hospital chiefs are confident the shops will turn in healthy profits that will be used to improve patient care.
▪ At a time when many chains are losing money, Lechters is turning a healthy profit.
▪ Burmah Castrol, the lubricants group, was one impressive performer as dealers cheered its healthy profits rise.
▪ Companies continue to register healthy profits.
▪ Bought four years ago from Johnson Matthey, it has since trebled turnover and is now making healthy profits.
▪ So does that add up to conflict for the pubs; healthy drinking verses healthy profit?
▪ Both, along with Red Dragon in Cardiff, which he also picked up, were now showing a healthy profit.
▪ The couple had taken over the shop six years previously and had achieved a healthy profit through hard work.
respect
▪ I wouldn't insult their intelligence by lying and we had a healthy respect for each other.
▪ My fear turned into a healthy respect for the sea.
▪ Having said all this, the court accepted the need to pay healthy respect to the principles of comity.
▪ Acclaimed designer Carleton Varney has introduced bright new colors and a sense of airy spaciousness while retaining a healthy respect for tradition.
▪ In the main they are shy creatures, though their speed, strength and agility demand a healthy respect.
▪ A different set of values existed, such as parental respect, and a healthy respect for law and order.
subject
▪ Jejunal secretion is, however, known to occasionally occur in healthy subjects.
▪ Even in healthy subjects the eyeball exhibits rapid, involuntary, oscillatory movements, a phenomenon called nystagmus.
▪ Peristaltic garments could almost double blood flow in healthy subjects.
▪ Thirty five healthy subjects with different blood groups were also included in the study.
▪ A nasopharyngeal swab or paired serum samples, or both, were collected from healthy subjects.
▪ ET-1 mRNA and mature peptide have been localised to the pulmonary epithelium of healthy subjects and those with asthma.
▪ The concentration of other essential cationic metals in gastric juice did not differ between healthy subjects and those with peptic ulcer disease.
▪ The control group consisted of 30 healthy subjects.
volunteer
▪ In healthy volunteers, H pylori state was determined by the C urea breath test.
▪ The H pylori negative and positive healthy volunteers were similar for both basal and peak acid output.
▪ Such a lack of correlation was also observed by Levin after oral administration of 5 µg purified cholera toxin to healthy volunteers.
▪ The study was approved by the ethics committee of our university and informed consent was obtained from all patients and healthy volunteers.
▪ Grossly normal appearing gastric biopsy specimens were taken from healthy volunteers.
▪ The patients with gastric ulcer had significantly fewer gap junctions than did the healthy volunteers.
▪ Twenty healthy volunteers completed the questionnaire.
▪ Small gap junctions were observed between gastric surface mucous cells in all healthy volunteers.
woman
▪ To me, she represents a healthy woman who eats sensibly and exercises.
▪ But doctors have not yet formulated their own message for the healthy women who carry these mutated genes.
▪ But even young, nulliparous, and otherwise totally healthy women experience urinary incontinence.
▪ Nine separate studies throughout the world have not shown any improvement in outcome for the baby with monitoring of healthy women.
▪ More and more healthy women who have prepared carefully for childbirth will be told that they have to undergo a Caesarean.
▪ We would soon discover that we had no answers to the most obvious questions about how healthy women function.
▪ A 19-year-old previously healthy woman was admitted with generalised tonic-clonic seizure, followed by focal myoclonus of the right shoulder.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
good/better/healthy etc start (in life)
▪ A good start is one where you pass close behind the start boat going at speed.
▪ But it wasn't a good start in the lessons of love, and left me very arid in such matters.
▪ He had better start by accepting that if he does the right things, they will not be popular ones.
▪ It wasn't a very good start.
▪ Not a good start, but a start, nevertheless.
▪ The auditor may enjoy the gifts, but he had better start looking for a sympathy engram not yet suspected or tapped.
▪ The problem was the middle and end, when the team sacrificed rebounding for getting out to a good start.
▪ They will, however, be getting a new center, and that is a good start, he believes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ healthy skin
▪ a healthy diet
▪ a healthy marriage
▪ a healthy outdoor life
▪ All of our kids have healthy appetites.
▪ Currently, there's a healthy climate for businesses.
▪ Eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables will help you to stay healthy.
▪ He's nearly 60 now but he's strong and healthy and full of energy.
▪ Her death came as a terrible shock. She had always been so healthy.
▪ Her face had a healthy glow.
▪ I'm trying to eat a healthier diet now, with less fat and sugar.
▪ I've been much healthier since I stopped smoking.
▪ I saw Hazel Phillips the other day, and she didn't look very healthy.
▪ It's not healthy for Donna to depend on Wayne so much.
▪ She's just had a lovely healthy baby girl.
▪ Taking plenty of exercise can be both healthy and enjoyable.
▪ We need to work toward a healthier environment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But there was always a healthy audience for metal.
▪ Educated women had lower fertility rates, and the children they did have were significantly healthier.
▪ In some places they even say that small amounts of radiation make you healthier.
▪ It is now established as a healthy food, with popular appeal for the ever-growing numbers of health-conscious diners.
▪ Over time, children who are not autonomous do not develop a healthy sense of self-esteem.
▪ She looked perfectly healthy, but Frankie was not convinced.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Healthy
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
healthy
1550s, from health + -y (2). Slightly earlier in the same sense was healthsome (1530s). Related: Healthiness.\n\nIt is wrong to say that certain articles of food are healthy or unhealthy. Wholesome and unwholesome are the right words. A pig may be healthy or unhealthy while alive; but after he is killed and becomes pork, he can enjoy no health, and suffer no sickness.
[Eliza Leslie, "Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book," Philadelphia, 1839]
Wiktionary
healthy
a. Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.
WordNet
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]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "healthy".
The vines of the clematis tangutica climbed the trellis and the foxglove and aconitum looked hearty and healthy.
TO THE GREAT DELIGHT of everyone around him, Adams remained remarkably healthy and good-spirited.
It had all been so healthy and naturally violent, so different from the effete aestheticism of today.
That is, we believed that ahistorical remembering was an aspect of wish fulfillment among the healthiest and most engaged personalities.
Fortunately, treated Haluk individuals who had reverted to the testudomorph state did emerge from their chrysalids as healthy allomorphic graciles.
Even his endoplasm lost the turgidity of the healthy ameboid and became dangerously thin and transparent.
Even his endoplasm lost the turgidity of the healthy amoeboid and became dangerously thin and transparent.
It was obvious that Vita was physically healthy and emotionally sound, and that was an immeasurable reassurance.
Like the Angels, the girls were mainly in their twenties -- although some were obvious teenagers and a few were aging whores looking forward to a healthy outdoor weekend.
If one means that the flesh of perfectly healthy animals is liable to cause cancer, the hypothesis is one for which it seems to me that the evidence is far from being sufficient to justify belief.
The owners of the salt mines in Ansu are paying a lot of money for strong, healthy slaves right now.
A healthy newborn baby, crying vigorously and moving all limbs, would ideally have an apgar score of eight to ten.
The bone was living and healthy and had formed a sort of arthrodial joint on the base of the phalanx of the little finger and had remained in this position for nearly twenty-two years.
Still, if a certain amount of healthy, visually stimulated autoeroticism was okay, I also knew it would hurt her terribly if I ever had a real-life affair.
She took five bottles altogether, and she has borne a large, healthy child since.