adj

healthy

HEHL-thee

adj

In good physical or mental condition; free from illness.

"A healthy diet includes plenty of vegetables."

"The doctor confirmed the baby was healthy."

Sizeable or substantial, especially of an amount.

"The company reported a healthy profit this quarter."

How to Use Healthy

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishIn good condition — or, informally, a decent-sized amount of something.

Common pairings

healthy lifestyle healthy profit stay healthy

healthier comparative, more healthy comparative, healthiest superlative, most healthy superlative

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A _____ diet includes plenty of vegetables.

Formed from health plus the adjective suffix -y.

all oak and iron bound buxom fit hail hale hale and hearty in the pink of health lusty normal sound sound as a barrel sound as a bell

diseased ill

sound OK fit beautiful pull drag extraordinary strange

wealthy stealthy unhealthy

all oak and iron bound buxom fit hail hale hale and hearty in the pink of health lusty normal sound sound as a barrel sound as a bell