different between healthy vs qualified

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kw?l.?.fa?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw?l.?.fa?d/
• Hyphenation: qual?i?fied

Adjective

qualified (comparative more qualified, superlative most qualified)

1. Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
2. Restricted or limited by conditions.

   Assuming that I have all the information, my qualified opinion is that your plan will work.

Antonyms

• non-qualified
• unqualified

Derived terms

• well-qualified

Translations

Verb

qualified

1. simple past tense and past participle of qualify