healthy
Adjective
- In good physical or mental condition; conducive to good health.
- having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease
- "a rosy healthy baby"
- "staying fit and healthy"
Adjective Satellite
- financially secure and functioning well
- "a healthy economy"
- promoting health; healthful; ; ; ; ; - C.B.Davis
- "a healthy diet"
- "clean healthy air"
- "plenty of healthy sleep"
- "healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy"
- exercising or showing good judgment
- "healthy scepticism"
- "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"
- "the healthy attitude of French laws"
- "healthy relations between labor and management"
- large in amount or extent or degree
Adj
- Enjoying good health; free from disease or disorder.
- Conducive to health.
- Evincing health.
- Significant, hefty; beneficial.
Examples
- A healthy diet can help to maintain proper weight.
- a healthy dislike, a healthy contempt
- a healthy mind in a healthy body
- a healthy respect for authority
- Brush regularly to keep your teeth and gums strong and healthy.
- Despite a few challenges, his Words With Friends strategy remained remarkably HEALTHY.
- He was father to three healthy kids.
- Her face had a healthy glow.
- My fruit trees are looking very healthy.
- Sam unwrapped the sandwich and took a healthy bite out of the middle.
Origin / Etymology
From health + -y.
Synonyms
good for you, goodish, goodly, hefty, intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded, respectable, salubrious, sizable, sizeable, sound, tidy, all oak and iron bound, buxom, fit, hail, hale, hale and hearty, healthful, healthy, in the pink of health, lusty, nourishing, sound as a barrel, sound as a bell, well, whole, wholesome
Scrabble Score: 16
healthy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhealthy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
healthy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary