From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Healthy \Health"y\ (-[y^]), adjective [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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
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: {salubrious}, {good for you(p)}]
4: physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise" [syn: {fit}] [ant: {unfit}]
5: 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: {intelligent}, {levelheaded}, {sound}] [also: {healthiest}, {healthier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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