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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (5)

1. having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease;
- Example: "a rosy healthy baby"
- Example: "staying fit and healthy"

2. financially secure and functioning well;
- Example: "a healthy economy"

3. promoting health; healthful;
- Example: "a healthy diet"
- Example: "clean healthy air"
- Example: "plenty of healthy sleep"
- Example: "healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy"
- Example: "the salubrious mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis
- Example: "carrots are good for you"
[syn: healthy, salubrious, good for you(p)]

4. exercising or showing good judgment;
- Example: "healthy scepticism"
- Example: "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"
- Example: "the healthy attitude of French laws"
- Example: "healthy relations between labor and management"
- Example: "an intelligent solution"
- Example: "a sound approach to the problem"
- Example: "sound advice"
- Example: "no sound explanation for his decision"
[syn: healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound]

5. large in amount or extent or degree;
- Example: "it cost a considerable amount"
- Example: "a goodly amount"
- Example: "received a hefty bonus"
- Example: "a respectable sum"
- Example: "a tidy sum of money"
- Example: "a sizable fortune"
[syn: goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Healthy \Health"y\ (-[y^]), a. [Compar. Healthier
   (-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Healthiest.]
   1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound;
      free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant.
      [1913 Webster]

            His mind was now in a firm and healthy state.
                                                  --Macaulay.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy
      complexion.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as,
      a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.

   Syn: Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome;
        salutary.
        [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

healthy
    adj 1: having or indicating good health in body or mind; free
           from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby";
           "staying fit and healthy" [ant: unhealthy]
    2: financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"
    3: 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"- C.B.Davis; "carrots are good for you" [syn:
       healthy, salubrious, good for you(p)]
    4: 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" [syn: healthy, intelligent, levelheaded,
       level-headed, sound]
    5: 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"
       [syn: goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable,
       sizable, sizeable, tidy]