healthy
adjective
1.
2.
3.
- “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.
physically and mentally sound or healthy
- “felt relaxed and fit after their holiday”
- “keeps fit with diet and exercise”
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”
Origin
From health + -y.
Phrases
- a healthy body is a healthy mind
- early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- healthy as a horse
- healthy participant effect
- healthy user bias
- healthy worker bias
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