different between healthy vs exemplary

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle French exemplaire (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a sample, specimen”), from Latin exempl?ris (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile”), from exemplum (“an example; a sample; a copy or transcript”). Doublet of exemplar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z?mpl??i/, /?k-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?mpl??i/, /??-/
• Hyphenation: ex?em?pla?ry

Adjective

exemplary (comparative more exemplary, superlative most exemplary)

1. Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
2. Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.
3. Serving as a warning; monitory.
4. Providing an example or illustration.

Synonyms

• (all senses): exemplar (adjective) (obsolete)
• (serving as a warning): admonitory

Translations

Noun

exemplary (plural exemplaries)

1. (obsolete) An example, or typical instance.
2. (obsolete) A copy of a book or a piece of writing.

Synonyms

• exemplar
• paradigm

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