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healthfull

English

Adjective

healthfull (comparative more healthfull, superlative most healthfull)

  1. Archaic form of healthful.

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healthy

English

Etymology

From health +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?h?l.?i/
  • Rhymes: -?l?i

Adjective

healthy (comparative healthier or more healthy, superlative healthiest or most healthy)

  1. Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.
    Antonym: unhealthy
  2. Conducive to health.
    Synonym: healthful
    Antonym: unhealthy
  3. Evincing health.
  4. (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.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • heal
  • healing
  • whole

Translations

Further reading

  • healthy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • healthy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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