healthy

healthy
    adj 1: having or indicating good health in body or mind; free
           from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby";
           "staying fit and healthy" [ant: {unhealthy}]
    2: financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"
    3: promoting health; healthful; "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" [syn:
       {healthy}, {salubrious}, {good for you(p)}]
    4: exercising or showing good judgment; "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" [syn: {healthy}, {intelligent}, {levelheaded},
       {level-headed}, {sound}]
    5: large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable
       amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a
       respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune"
       [syn: {goodly}, {goodish}, {healthy}, {hefty}, {respectable},
       {sizable}, {sizeable}, {tidy}]
    

Healthy \Health"y\ (-[y^]), a. [Compar. {Healthier}
   (-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Healthiest}.]
   1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound;
      free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant.
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            His mind was now in a firm and healthy state.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy
      complexion.
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   3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as,
      a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.

   Syn: Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome;
        salutary.
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101 Moby Thesaurus words for "healthy":
      advantageous, alive and kicking, auspicious, beneficial,
      benevolent, benign, big, bon, bonny, bracing, braw,
      bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, bueno, bumper, bunkum, capital,
      chipper, cogent, commendable, considerable, constitutional,
      elegant, enjoying health, estimable, eupeptic, excellent,
      expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, fit, fit and fine,
      flourishing, full of beans, good, good for, goodly, grand, great,
      hale, hale and hearty, health-enhancing, health-preserving,
      healthful, helpful, hygeian, hygienic, in condition,
      in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health,
      in good shape, in health, in high feather, in mint condition,
      in shape, in the pink, invigorating, kind, large, large-scale,
      laudable, man-sized, nice, noble, nourishing, numerous, nutritious,
      pleasant, profitable, refreshing, regal, right, robust, royal,
      salubrious, salutary, sane, sanitary, sizable, skillful, sound,
      splendid, strong, sturdy, substantial, tall, thriving, tidy, tonic,
      trim, useful, valid, very good, vigorous, virtuous, well, whole,
      wholesome