healthy
ADJECTIVE:
1. possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality:
a healthy body; a healthy mind; healthy children; tips for staying healthy.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of good health, or a sound and vigorous mind:
a healthy appearance; healthy attitudes.
3. conducive to good health; healthful:
healthy recreations.
4. prosperous, flourishing, or sound:
a healthy business; a healthy economy.
5. functioning well or being sound:
the company's finances are not very healthy.
6. conducive to health; salutary.
7. indicating soundness of body or mind:
a healthy appetite.
8. conducive to good health; healthful.
9. indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind.
10. free from disease:
Damping off rots healthy seedlings at soil level, breaking the heart of the gardener as surely as it breaks tender stems. —Leslie Land. // A person with heart disease will not be able to tolerate the same doses and drugs as a person with a healthy heart. —Sallie Tisdale.
11. not displaying clinical signs of disease or infection:
A patient with HIV may be healthy for several years before developing either the cluster of symptoms identified as AIDS or any of the bacterial, viral, fungal or protozoal infections known as AIDS Related Complex... —Al Veerhoff.
12. beneficial to one's physical, mental, or emotional state; conducive to or associated with good health or reduced risk of disease:
healthy foods // a healthy lifestyle // … walk three miles every day … a beastly bore, but healthy. —G. S. Patton. // Generally, a BMI of 19 to 25 indicates a healthy weight. —Mayo Clinic Health Letter.
13. showing physical, mental, or emotional well-being; evincing good health:
a healthy complexion // has a healthy appetite // The best thing about a good sense of humor, of course, is that it's a sure sign that you have a healthy attitude—always a refreshing check in the plus column. —Glamour.
Examples:
The company is financially healthy. // always a hard worker, Grandma has remained healthy into her 80s.
Origin:
First recorded in 1545–55; health + -y1. —Dictionary.com. // First Known Use of healthy: 1552. History and Etymology for healthy: see health. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Added: 12 July 2020 {6:01 PM}
1. possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality:
a healthy body; a healthy mind; healthy children; tips for staying healthy.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of good health, or a sound and vigorous mind:
a healthy appearance; healthy attitudes.
3. conducive to good health; healthful:
healthy recreations.
4. prosperous, flourishing, or sound:
a healthy business; a healthy economy.
5. functioning well or being sound:
the company's finances are not very healthy.
6. conducive to health; salutary.
7. indicating soundness of body or mind:
a healthy appetite.
8. conducive to good health; healthful.
9. indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind.
10. free from disease:
Damping off rots healthy seedlings at soil level, breaking the heart of the gardener as surely as it breaks tender stems. —Leslie Land. // A person with heart disease will not be able to tolerate the same doses and drugs as a person with a healthy heart. —Sallie Tisdale.
11. not displaying clinical signs of disease or infection:
A patient with HIV may be healthy for several years before developing either the cluster of symptoms identified as AIDS or any of the bacterial, viral, fungal or protozoal infections known as AIDS Related Complex... —Al Veerhoff.
12. beneficial to one's physical, mental, or emotional state; conducive to or associated with good health or reduced risk of disease:
healthy foods // a healthy lifestyle // … walk three miles every day … a beastly bore, but healthy. —G. S. Patton. // Generally, a BMI of 19 to 25 indicates a healthy weight. —Mayo Clinic Health Letter.
13. showing physical, mental, or emotional well-being; evincing good health:
a healthy complexion // has a healthy appetite // The best thing about a good sense of humor, of course, is that it's a sure sign that you have a healthy attitude—always a refreshing check in the plus column. —Glamour.
Examples:
The company is financially healthy. // always a hard worker, Grandma has remained healthy into her 80s.
Origin:
First recorded in 1545–55; health + -y1. —Dictionary.com. // First Known Use of healthy: 1552. History and Etymology for healthy: see health. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Added: 12 July 2020 {6:01 PM}