HEALTHY

goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy

(adjective) 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”

healthy

(adjective) having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; “a rosy healthy baby”; “staying fit and healthy”

healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound

(adjective) 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”

healthy

(adjective) financially secure and functioning well; “a healthy economy”

healthy, salubrious, good for you

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

healthy (comparative healthier, superlative healthiest)

Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.

Antonym: unhealthy

Conducive to health.

Synonym: healthful

Antonym: unhealthy

Evincing health.

(figuratively) Significant, hefty; beneficial.

Usage notes

When a clearer distinction is intended, healthy is used to describe the state of the object, and healthful describes its ability to impart health to the recipient. Vegetables in good condition are both healthy (i.e, not rotten or diseased) and healthful (i.e, they improve the eaters' health, compared to eating junk food). By contrast, a poisonous plant can be healthy, but it is not healthful to eat it.

Source: Wiktionary

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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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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