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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HEALTH'Y, a. Being in a sound state; enjoying health; hale; sound; as a healthy body or constitution.
1. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; as a healthy exercise; a healthy climate; healthy recreations.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy" [ant: unhealthy]
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"; "the salubrious mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis; "carrots are good for you" [syn: healthy, 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 labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision" [syn: healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound]
5: large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune" [syn: goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (healthier; -est) Date: 1552 1. enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit ; well 2. evincing health <a healthy complexion> 3. conducive to health <walk three miles every day…a beastly bore, but healthy — G. S. Patton> 4. a. prosperous, flourishing b. not small or feeble ; considerable • healthily adverb • healthiness noun Synonyms: healthy, sound, wholesome, robust, hale, well mean enjoying or indicative of good health. healthy implies full strength and vigor as well as freedom from signs of disease <a healthy family>. sound emphasizes the absence of disease, weakness, or malfunction <a sound heart>. wholesome implies appearance and behavior indicating soundness and balance <a face with a wholesome glow>. robust implies the opposite of all that is delicate or sickly <a lively, robust little boy>. hale applies particularly to robustness in old age <still hale at the age of eighty>. well implies merely freedom from disease or illness <she has never been a well person>.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (healthier, healthiest) 1 having, showing, or promoting good health. 2 beneficial, helpful (a healthy respect for experience). Derivatives: healthily adv. healthiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Healthy Health"y, a. [Compar. Healthier; superl. Healthiest.] 1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant. His mind was now in a firm and healthy state. --Macaulay. 2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion. 3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate. Syn: Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(healthier, healthiest) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Someone who is healthy is well and is not suffering from any illness. Most of us need to lead more balanced lives to be healthy and happy... ADJ • healthily What I really want is to live healthily for as long as possible. ADV: usu ADV after v 2. If a feature or quality that you have is healthy, it makes you look well or shows that you are well. ...the glow of healthy skin. ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. Something that is healthy is good for your health. ...a healthy diet. ADJ: usu ADJ n 4. A healthy organization or system is successful. ...an economically healthy socialist state. ADJ: usu ADJ n 5. A healthy amount of something is a large amount that shows success. He predicts a continuation of healthy profits in the current financial year. = substantial ADJ: usu ADJ n 6. If you have a healthy attitude about something, you show good sense. She has a refreshingly healthy attitude to work... ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Sound, hale, hearty, vigorous, strong, of good health, of a sound constitution. 2. Well, in good health, in a sound condition, in good case. 3. Wholesome, salubrious, salutary, healthful, bracing, invigorating, health-giving.

Moby Thesaurus

advantageous, alive and kicking, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, benign, big, bon, bonny, bracing, braw, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, bueno, bumper, bunkum, capital, chipper, cogent, commendable, considerable, constitutional, elegant, enjoying health, estimable, eupeptic, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, fit, fit and fine, flourishing, full of beans, good, good for, goodly, grand, great, hale, hale and hearty, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, helpful, hygeian, hygienic, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health, in good shape, in health, in high feather, in mint condition, in shape, in the pink, invigorating, kind, large, large-scale, laudable, man-sized, nice, noble, nourishing, numerous, nutritious, pleasant, profitable, refreshing, regal, right, robust, royal, salubrious, salutary, sane, sanitary, sizable, skillful, sound, splendid, strong, sturdy, substantial, tall, thriving, tidy, tonic, trim, useful, valid, very good, vigorous, virtuous, well, whole, wholesome