healthy
adjUS, UK /ˈhɛl.θi/ · AU /ˈhel.θi/
Etymology From health + -y.
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Enjoying good health; free from disease or disorder.
- He was father to three healthy kids.
- a healthy mind in a healthy body
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- Brush regularly to keep your teeth and gums strong and healthy.
- My fruit trees are looking very healthy.
- By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
- At Columbia-Greene, staffers go for the most unadoptable animals to save them from euthanasia. The youngest, healthiest, cutest pets are waiting for you.1998, Elizabeth Hess, Lost and Found:
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Conducive to health.
- A healthy diet can help to maintain proper weight.
- Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
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- It was heretical to say that protein wasn't healthy, let alone say it promoted cancer.2016, T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell, The China Study, revised and expanded edition, BenBella Books, Inc., page 214:
- Eric Andre: You know, they say if it's gray it's healthy for you. Jack McBrayer: No one has ever said that. Hannibal Burress: Only thing gray that you could eat and it'd be healthy for you is, uhh, I think seal meat.2016, The Eric Andre Show, season 4, episode 2:
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Evincing health.
- Her face had a healthy glow.
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Figuratively Significant, hefty; beneficial.
- a healthy respect for authority
- Sam unwrapped the sandwich and took a healthy bite out of the middle.
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- a healthy dislike, a healthy contempt
- “Healthy engagement” is how the company describes its aim. “We are building ChatGPT to help users thrive and reach their goals,” Hannah Wong, OpenAI’s spokeswoman, said.2025 November 23, Kashmir Hill, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, quoting Hannah Wong, “What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- all oak and iron bound, buxom, fit, hail, hale, hale and hearty, healthy, in the pink of health, lusty, normal, sound, sound as a barrel, sound as a bell, well, whole
- Derived terms
- a healthy body is a healthy mind, early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise, healthification, healthify, healthily, healthiness, healthy as a horse, healthy participant effect, healthy user bias, healthy worker bias, heart-healthy, nonhealthy, superhealthy, unhealthy
- Hyponyms
- fighting fit, uninjured