good for you

1. 1.

   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”

   “carrots are good for you”

   Synonymshealthysalubrious

   Similarwholesome

Questions about good for you

What does good for you mean?

good for you means "promoting health; healthful".

What is another word for good for you?

Close synonyms include healthy, salubrious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is good for you a common word?

good for you is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.