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Webster 1913 Edition


Healthy

Health′y

(-y̆)
,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Healthier
(-ĭ-ẽr)
;
sup
erl.
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.
Syn. – Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary.

Webster 1828 Edition


Healthy

HEALTH'Y

,
Adj.
Being in a sound state; enjoying health; hale; sound; as a healthy body or constitution.
1.
Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; as a healthy exercise; a healthy climate; healthy recreations.

Definition 2024


healthy

healthy

English

Adjective

healthy (comparative healthier, superlative healthiest)

  1. Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.
    He was father to three healthy kids.
    • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
      By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
  2. Conducive to health.
    A healthy diet and exercise can help to maintain proper weight.
    • 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
      Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.   Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
  3. Evincing health.
  4. (figuratively) Significant, hefty; beneficial.
    a healthy respect for authority
    Sam unwrapped the sandwich and took a healthy bite out of the middle.

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  • healthy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • healthy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911