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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)
- 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.
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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healthe
English
Noun
healthe (usually uncountable, plural healthes)
- Obsolete spelling of health
Anagrams
- e-health, eHealth, healeth
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