healthy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease
    • a rosy healthy baby
    • staying fit and healthy
  2. adjective satellite financially secure and functioning well
    • a healthy economy
  3. adjective satellite promoting health; healthful
    salubrious; good for you.
    • a healthy diet
    • clean healthy air
    • plenty of healthy sleep
    • healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy
    • the salubrious mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis
    • carrots are good for you
  4. adjective satellite exercising or showing good judgment
    levelheaded; sound; intelligent; level-headed.
    • healthy scepticism
    • a healthy fear of rattlesnakes
    • the healthy attitude of French laws
    • healthy relations between labor and management
    • an intelligent solution
    • a sound approach to the problem
    • sound advice
    • no sound explanation for his decision
  5. adjective satellite large in amount or extent or degree
    sizeable; respectable; hefty; tidy; sizable; goodly; goodish.
    • it cost a considerable amount
    • a goodly amount
    • received a hefty bonus
    • a respectable sum
    • a tidy sum of money
    • a sizable fortune

WordNet

Health"y adjective
Wordforms
comparative Healthier ; superlative Healthiest
Definitions
  1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.
    His mind was now in a firm and healthy state. Macaulay.
  2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.
  3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate. Syn. -- Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary.

Webster 1913