Healthy - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈhelθɪ|  American pronunciation of the word healthy
Brit.  |ˈhelθɪ|  British pronunciation of the word healthy

adjective

- financially secure and functioning well
a healthy economy
- promoting health; healthful (syn: salubrious)
a healthy diet
clean healthy air
plenty of healthy sleep
healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy
- exercising or showing good judgment (syn: intelligent, level-headed, sound)
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 (syn: goodly, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy)

Extra examples

The company is financially healthy.

...always a hard worker, Grandma has remained healthy into her 80s...

Smoking is not healthy for you.

To walk three miles every day is a beastly bore, but healthy.

He exerted deep and healthy influence upon society.

I've always been perfectly healthy until now.

Her face had a healthy glow.

All of our kids have healthy appetites (=they like to eat a lot).

I don't think it's healthy for her to spend so much time alone.

I want to impress on them that they'll find it more healthy not to try for more.

She was happy and healthy for most of her life.

Fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods

Trying a more healthy approach

Repeated application of fertilizer will help the grass become green and healthy.

Repeated applications of fertilizer will help the grass become green and healthy.

Word forms

adjective
comparative: healthier
superlative: healthiest
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