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healthy is an adjective meaning "having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease". It carries 5 recorded senses.
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”
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”
large in amount or extent or degree
“it cost a considerable amount”
“a goodly amount”
“received a hefty bonus”
“a respectable sum”
“a tidy sum of money”
“a sizable fortune”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for healthy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.