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Healthy

Definition: Healthy

Healthy

Adjective

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

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".

4. Physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise".

5. 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 reasonable explanation for his decision".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "healthy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Healthy \Health"y\, adjective. [Comparative Healthier; superlative Healthiest.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Healthy

DomainDefinition

Tips from 1870

Usage: Healthy, Wholesome. These terms are not synonymous. Toadstools may be healthy, but they would not be regarded as wholesome. Plants and animals are healthy when the conditions of their growth are favorable. They are wholesome when, as food, they promote the health of those persons who eat them.
Usage: Healthy, Healthful. A lady wrote to a paper asking, "Are plants in a sleeping-room unhealthy?" The answer came, "Not necessarily; we have seen some very healthy plants growing in sleeping-rooms."
Persons are healthy or unhealthy. A plant or tree is healthy or unhealthy according as it possesses vigor. Food, surroundings and conditions are healthful or unhealthful according as they promote or destroy health. Source: Slips of Speech.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Healthy

Synonyms: fit (adj), good for you(p) (adj), intelligent (adj), levelheaded (adj), salubrious (adj), sound (adj). (additional references)
Antonyms: unfit (adj), unhealthy (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Healthy

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Health

Adjective: healthy, healthful; in health; Noun: well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole; florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof.

Salubrity

Adjective: salubrious, salutary, salutiferous; wholesome; healthy, healthful; sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious; hygeian, hygienic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Healthy

English words defined with "healthy": able, able-bodied, acting out, apparentlybalanced diet, be well, bill of health, blessed, blessed with, bouncingCatoptromancy, Celluar pathology, Cheiloplasty, clear, coloration, confined, corneal gaft, corn-fed, cot death, crib death, critical, cureendued with, energy, eudaemonia, eudaimonia, Euplastic, Eutrophyfecundity, feed, fertilise, fertilize, firm, firmness, fit, Freudian slip, fruitfulness, Ftiction, full term, full-termgood, good for youheal, health, hearty, homeopathy, homoeopathyinfant death, intelligent, invasive, Isopathykeratoplasty, kill oneselflevelheaded, lustilymental balance, mental soundnessnutritiousness, nutritivenesson the face of it, ostensibly, overexert oneselfpathologyrosiness, rubicund, ruddiness, ruddysalubrious, Salutiferous, sane, sanguine, seemingly, SIDS, sound, soundness, strengthen, sudden infant death syndrometerm, tone, tone upunhampered, unhindered, upbeatvim, vital, vitalitywalk, walking, welfare, well-being, well-preserved, Whole snipe. (references)
Specialty definitions using "healthy": Alendronate, alpha-fetoprotein, Antibodies, Anticardiolipin, Antibodies, Antiphospholipid, anti-trust lawsBayes Theorem, Bellycarcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance, chemoprotective, CHICK GRADER, Child Development, Clinical Trials, Phase I, Cognitive rehearsal, Crowe sign, Crowe's sign, customised blockDietary Guidelines for AmericansFEED AND FARM MANAGEMENT ADVISER, Food security, Fulminant Hepatic FailureGardnerella vaginalis, Gas Gangrene, Greek LifeHaggard, Healthful, Herpesvirus 7, Human, hive-off of a reverted kindinfiltrating cancer, interior horticulturist, invasive cancerlisofylline, Listeria monocytogenes, Lupus Coagulation InhibitorNeonatal Screening, Nerve Transfer, Nightingale, Nutrition PolicyOrangesPancreas Transplant, pentetic acid calcium, peripheral stem cell transplantation, physiologic pacing, Pig, PLANT PATHOLOGIST, plant tender, PLANT-CARE WORKER, poultry cullerradiation surgery, Recommended dietary allowancesSide, side effects, SR-29142, stem cell transplantation, Strasburg GooseTeam nutrition, Teeth, Third WayVentricular Remodeling, VETERINARY PHYSIOLOGISTWeaving, Wholesome. (references)
Etymologies containing "healthy": tutsan. (references)

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Modern Usage: Healthy

DomainUsage

Screenplays

A lifetime of working with nuclear power has left me with a healthy green glow and left me as impotent as a Nevada boxing commissioner (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

There's no room for honesty in a healthy relationship (XX/XY; writing credit: Austin Chick)

Well that sounds healthy, anyway, Leela: never be certain of anything (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

The Audrey Two is not a healthy girl (Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith; Howard Ashman)

They may be healthy, but honest to God those are the ugliest little boys ever born (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

Lyrics

I've never felt this healthy before (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Says she watches to much, is just not healthy ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

It was a healthy baby (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus)

If this ain't healthy is it some kinda clean (Chuck E's in love; performing artist: Rickie Lee Jones)

Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby (Kiss From A Rose; performing artist: Seal)

Clever

Healthy appearing, decrepit, 69-year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful. (references; author: unknown)

Attend this meeting and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch. (references; author: unknown)

The five most essential words for a healthy, vital relationship: "I apologize" and "You are right. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Healthy and Happy (1962)

Wealthy and Dumb Healthy (1938)

Young and Healthy (1933)

But Healthy Hot (1921)

Healthy and Happy (1919)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Healthy

DomainTitle

References

  • Healthy Planet Products, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Healthy Spreads (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Healthy Holidays: Total Health Entertaining All Year Round (reference)

  • The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life, and Spirit (reference)

  • The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Healthy

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Healthy

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

This is an image of healthy foods, including fruit, vegetables, fish and bread. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

This image shows a display of healthy foods on a table. Foods include beans, grains, cauliflour, cantelope, pasta, bread, orange, turkey, salmon, carrots, turnips, zucchini, snowpeas, string beans, radishes, asparagus, summer squash, lean beef, tomatoes, and potatoes. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Candida spp. are ubiquitous and colonize over 50% of healthy individuals. Up to 14% of patients with immunocompromising disease develop systemic candidiasis which predominantly infects mucous membranes. Credit: CDC.

Escherichia coli is the most common aerobic bacteria found in the large intestine of healthy individuals, and accounts for 90-95% of all the aerobic bacteria. Credit: CDC.

Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly. This image of Bolivia shows dramatic deforestation in the Amazon Basin. Loggers have cut long paths into the forest, while ranchers have cleared large blocks for their herds. Fanning out from these clear-cut areas are settlements built in radial arrangements of fields and farms. Healthy vegetation appears bright red in this image. Credit: NASA.

Center pivot irrigation systems created these circular patterns in crop land near Garden City, Kansas. The red circles indicate irrigated crops of healthy vegetation. The light-colored circles represent harvested crops.. Credit: NASA.

Grouper spawning aggregation in healthy Oculina varicosa habitat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A flounder swims through a healthy bed of seagrass. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Edible shrimps, like this white shrimp, Penaeus setiferus, depend on healthy estuaries for their survival. They enter the estuary from the ocean as minute post larvae and return as adults in the span of just a few months. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve An American bittern - Peromyscus leucopus. This secretive bird is relatively rare and requires healthy wetlands for its continued existence. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Healthy
 

"Fast food, healthy" by M.Jander
Commentary: "Kitchen things: salad if in a hurry."
"Healthy dinner :)" by Radek Siechowicz
Commentary: "Healthy dinner :)."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Healthy

AuthorQuotation

Benjamin Franklin

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.

Doris Lessing

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Hilaire Belloc

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The classical I call healthy and the romantic sick.

Samuel Butler

To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Steele

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Healthy

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

So that the end and measure of this power, when in every man's hands in the state of nature, being the preservation of all of his society, that is, all mankind in general, it can have no other end or measure, when in the hands of the magistrate, but to preserve the members of that society in their lives, liberties, and possessions; and so cannot be an absolute, arbitrary power over their lives and fortunes, which are as much as possible to be preserved; but a power to make laws, and annex such penalties to them, as may tend to the preservation of the whole, by cutting off those parts, and those only, which are so corrupt, that they threaten the sound and healthy, without which no severity is lawful. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Healthy

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Without understanding it himself clearly, and without trying to explain it, that chaste, healthy, firm, direct, hard, candid nature charmed him.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

But alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Healthy

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

You need a healthy liver. (references)

Healthy teeth should be preserved. (references)

Estrogen helps to keep bones healthy. (references)

Business

The banking system is basically sound and healthy. (references)

It has built a healthy business delivering eye surgery services to local patients. (references)

The U.S. maintains a healthy market share in about half the import market despite the economic crisis and currency situation. (references)

Children

Brunei

The strong commitment to family values within society, the high standard of living, and government funding for children's welfare provides most children a healthy and nurturing environment. (references)

China

The minimum age for adopting a healthy child is now set at 30 instead of 35. Some observers worry that the law, which became effective in 1999, may eliminate the age-based incentive for the adoption of children with special needs. (references)

Mexico

The law provides for the right to life, non-discrimination, healthy living conditions, protection against threats to liberty and physical abuse, a healthy family life, health services, equal treatment for persons with disabilities, education, pursuit of happiness, and freedom of thought and expression. (references)

Economic History

Norway

The Norwegian economy is currently very healthy. (references)

Poland

Poland has developed healthy and growing equity markets. (references)

Netherlands

They try to create a positive consumer image of seafood as a healthy low-fat product. (references)

Political Economy

Mexico

A strong and economically healthy Mexico is a fundamental U.S. interest. (references)

Travel

Bolivia

Healthy individuals can have problems. (references)

Women

Kyrgyz Republic

Data indicated that women were becoming less healthy, more abused, less able to work outside the home, and less able to dispose of their earnings independently. (references)

Worker Rights

Dominican Republic

They also call for a workplace that is safe and healthy. (references)

Sweden

These standards are very high, making workplaces both safe and healthy in general. (references)

Malaysia

The act requires workers to use safety equipment and to cooperate with employers to create a safe, healthy workplace. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Healthy

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dick Cheney

Protest to protect. I mean, that's the strength of our democracy. People can take to the streets and agree, disagree, demonstrate. As long as they're peaceful, I think it's a sign of a healthy society.

Robert Atkins

Oh, have you got that wrong. If it tastes good, you can stay on it for life. Just pick a healthy food that tastes good and that's what Atkins does.

Robert Wagner

Well, fortunately I'm healthy. I've met so many people. I've been blessed in my career, and I've had a chance to really, you know, it's better. It gets better all the time, you know. Really.

Rod Steiger

Just stay mentally healthy and physically healthy and make sure my son and wife respect me, whether I'm alive or to hear my name today or tomorrow.

Yitzhak Rabin

I am healthy. I wish all my colleagues to the peace process to be healthy. I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time. I appreciate the Chairman Arafat for his courage to take the decision to enter into negotiations with us.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Healthy

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953During this period we must do a thorough job of basic planning to the end that agriculture shall be able to contribute its full share toward a healthy national economy.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Greatness requires not only an educated people but a healthy people.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977One test of a healthy economy is a job for every American who wants to work.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981After taxes and inflation, there was a healthy increase in workers' wages.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Our communities are only as healthy as the air our children breathe, the water they drink, the Earth they will inherit.

George W. Bush

2001-2005We cannot be satisfied until every part of our economy is healthy and vigorous.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Healthy

"Healthy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.75% of the time. "Healthy" is used about 3,585 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)98.75%3,5402,747
Noun (proper)1.2%4352,181
Noun (common)0.06%2245,945
                    Total100.00%3,585N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Healthy

CountryName
USA

Healthy Planet Products, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Healthy

Expressions using "healthy": being healthy healthy child healthy mind healthy sign Healthy Worker Effect he's very healthy make healthy Mount Healthy Mount Healthy Heights not healthy thoroughly healthy. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "healthy": healthy-eating, healthy-looking, healthy-minded, healthy-option, healthy-sized, healthy-style.

Ending with "healthy": extra-healthy, far-from-healthy, heart-healthy, super-healthy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Healthy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

healthy eating

2,765

healthy relationship

135

healthy people

2,482

healthy heart recipe

131

healthy recipe

2,410

healthy meal

130

healthy diet

927

florida healthy kid

124

healthy food

885

healthy back bag

107

healthy cooking

853

healthy lifestyle

104

healthy

777

healthy food recipe

100

healthy family

587

healthy aging

94

healthy hair

581

healthy pregnancy

93

conscious cooking healthy

581

healthy child

86

healthy weight loss

424

healthy start

85

healthy living

420

healthy breakfast

83

healthy people 2010

307

healthy fast food

80

healthy snacks

289

healthy dessert

78

healthy weight

222

eat healthy

70

healthy choice

192

healthy trinity

69

healthy heart

165

healthy ny

69

healthy heart diet

158

cellulite cream fat healthy woman

67

healthy skin

153

healthy gum

66

healthy kid

152

healthy diet plan

64
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Healthy

Language Translations for "healthy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

gesond (well), fiks (well). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

shëndetdhenës, i shëndoshë (chopping, corpulent, good, portly, sound, stout), i shëndetshëm (bonny, fit, flourishing, Hale, healthful, hearty, lush, lusty, salubrious, sleek, sound, upstanding, viable, well fed, wholesome), i mirë për shëndetin (healthful). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏في تمام الصحة, ‏متمتع بالصحة, ‏معافى (free, hale, right, sound, well), ‏صحي (constitutional, healthful, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, wholesome). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

здравословен (good, healthful, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, wholesome), здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, flush, good, hard, healthful, hearty, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), полезен за здравето. (various references)

   

Catalan

  

sa (well). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

健康 (health, healthful), . (various references)

   

Czech

  

zdravý (all right, fit, good, Hale, healthful, healthly, right, salubrious, sound, strong, well, well balanced, wholesome), vzkvétající (booming, buoyant). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sund (well), rask (well). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

valide (well), gezond (well), fit (well). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

sana (well). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

heilsugóður (well), frískur (well). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تندرست (Fit, Lusty, Well), سالم (Hale, Intact, Lucid, Safe, Salubrious, Sane, Sound, Valid, Well, Whole). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

terve (cheerio, cheers, hello, sound sane, well). (various references)

   

French

  

sain. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

sûn (well). (various references)

   

German

  

gesund (able bodied, daffy, fit, fresh, Hale, healthful, invigorating, nonhazardous, nonvenomous, robust, ruddy, salubrious, salubriously, salutarily, salutary, sanely, solid, sound, strong, trig, well, wholesome). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υγιεινόσ (healthful, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanatory, sanitarian, sanitary, wholesome), υγιήσ (able bodied, fit, sane, sound, well, whole), υγιής (sound). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בריא (buxom, fit, lusty, plump, right, robust, salubrious, sound, stout, well, wholesome). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

egészséges (conducive to health, fit, going strong, Hale, healthful, laudable, salubrious, sound, untouched, well, wholesome). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

waras (recovered), sehat (bouncing, hale, healthful, sane, well), afiat (good health). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sano (bonny, fit, hale, healthful, healthily, right, salubrious, sound, unharmed, upstanding, well, whole, wholesome). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ヘブライ語 (health, health center, health check, health club, health food, health meter, heart, heaven, Hebrew, helicopter, Helios, helioscope, heliotrope, heliport, helium, helix, hell, Hellenism, hellfire, helm, helmet, Helmholtz, help, helper, Helsinki, hem, hemline, hemoglobin, hemstitch, hen party, Henckels, henna, Hepburn, Herakles, herald, Hercules, Hermes, hernia, heroin, herpangina, herringbone, Herzogovina, Hz, Mr, Switzerland, type of massage parlor), (correct), 冴え冴えした (cheerful), 健やか  (sound, vigorous), 健やか (sound, vigorous), 壮健 (robust), 忠実 (devoted, faithful, faithfulness, fidelity, hardworking, honest). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すこやか (sound, vigorous), ヘルシー , そうけん (creation, establishment, foundation, general research, invention, observing a performance in a large group, originality, robust, sending the person accused to the prosecutor, shoulders, total research), きつ (correct), きち (already known, base, correct, dangerous position, extraordinary wisdom, perception, peril, resources, tact, understanding, well-known, wit, your place), まめ (beans, blister, clitoris, corn, devoted, faithful, hardworking, honest, peas), さえざえした (cheerful). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

건재한. (various references)

   

Malagasy

  

salama. (various references)

   

Malay

  

sehat (well). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sunt (sane, sound), slayntoil (genial, salubrious, sane, sanitary, sound), follan (bracing, edible, fit to eat, genial, hearty, incorrupt, orthodox, solvent, sound, whole, wholesome). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

frisk (fresh, good, recent, well). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

saludabel (well), salú (health, well). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ealthyhay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

zdrowy (well), zdrów (well). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sadio (healthful, lusty, robust, salubrious, sound, strong, vigorous, wakeless). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

zdravãn (awfully, mighty, sane, sinewy, sound, soundly, sturdy, terrible, vigorous, whole), voinic (bulky, burly, chopping, hale and hearty, Hardy, hefty, hero, husky, mite, muscular, nervy, powerful, stout, strapping, sturdy, tight, upstanding, vigorous), vânjos (marrowy, sinewy, wiry), sãnãtos (able bodied, fresh, good, Hale, healthful, healthily, heartily, i'm allright, right, sagacious, sound, soundly, strong, up to the mark, well, wholesome, wise). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

здоровый (able bodied, bouncing, fit, flourishing, healthful, lusty, right, robust, salubrious, salutary, sound, strapper, upstanding, wholesome). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

slàn (sound), fallain. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zdrav (able bodied, bonny, bouncing, salubrious, salutary, sanatory, sound, well, wholesome). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sano (able bodied, bonny, good, hale, healthful, hearty, integrated, pure-minded, salubrious, sane, sound, whole, wholesome). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

kusonto (well), gesontu (well). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sund (channel, neck, salubrious, sane, sound, straight, strait, straits, stright, well, wholesome), hälsosam (healthful, salubrious, salutary, wholesome), frisk (crisp, fresh, good, hale, lively, lusty, smacking, snappy, sound, strong, sweet, well, whole). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

malusóg (well). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yararlı (advantageous, beneficial, benign, benignant, efficacious, good, handy, healthful, helpful, of use, profitable, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, subservient, useful, wholesome), sihhatli (well), sağlam (able bodied, bankable, bouncing, calculable, cast iron, consolidated, dyed in grain, fast, firm, flat-footed, foolproof, foursquare, gilt-edged, good, granitic, Hale, hard, hearty, indissoluble, invulnerable, lusty, responsible, rugged, runproof, safe, scatheless, secure, secured, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, steely, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, sure, tough, unfaltering, unshakable, unshaken, valid, whole), sağlıklı (bonny, bouncing, fit, florid, healthful, husky, in good health, in good nick, right, ruddy, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, sound, well, whole, wholesome), sağlığa yarar, büyük (almighty, ample, big, bulky, capacious, capital, cyclopean, elder, enormous, exalted, extended, grand, grand-, great, great-, handsome, high, keen, large, large scale, long, macro-, magniloquent, major, mega-, megalo-, mighty, no end, no end of, older, out, precious, rousing, senior, smart, star, stout, sublime, swingeing, wide), önemli (big, big time, capital, consequential, considerable, emphatic, emphatical, eventful, fateful, grand, grave, great, gut, heavy, high, historic, historical, important, leading, major, momentous, noteworthy, of importance, of note, of weight, prominent, respectable, serious, significant, smart, solemn, star, substantial, top-line, urgent, weighty, worthy). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

sag-g, sagdyn, sagat (clock, hour, watch), sag, gurgun, daяaw (strong), bardaюly. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розсудливий (advisable, canny, conscious, judicial, judicious, politic, prudent, prudential, reasonable, sober, sober minded, wholesome, wise), здоровий (able bodied, bonny, full-blooded, healthful, hearty, hygienic, hygienical, robust, salubrious, salutary, sound, well, well-conditioned), життєздатний (viable). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

khoẻ mạnh có lợi cho sức khoẻ lành mạnh. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

iachus (healthful, wholesome), iach (well). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Healthy

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

silim. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

sanus. (various references)

Avestan200-600

baêshazya. (various references)

Old English450-1100

halwende. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Healthy

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 17, Verse 22
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKardia eufrainomenh euektein poiei androV de luphrou xhrainetai ta osta
Latin405VulgateAnimus gaudens aetatem floridam facit spiritus tristis exsiccat ossa
Middle English1395WyclifIoyende inwit maketh briyt age; a drery spirit ful out drieth bones.
Jacobean English1611King JamesA merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Victorian English1833WebsterA merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Basic English1964OgdenA glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Healthy

LanguageProverbs Chapter 17, Verse 22
Cebuano¶ Ang kasingkasing nga malipayon maoy usa ka maayong tambal; Apan ang usa kamasulob-on nga espiritu nagapauga sa mga bukog.
CroatianVeselo je srce izvrstan lijek, a neveseo duh suši kosti.
DanishGlad Hjerte er godt for Legemet, nedslået Sind suger Marv af Benene.
DutchEen blij hart zal een medicijn goed maken; maar een verslagen geest zal het gebeente verdrogen.
FinnishTerveydeksi on iloinen sydän, mutta murtunut mieli kuivuttaa luut.
FrenchUn coeur joyeux est un bon remède, Mais un esprit abattu dessèche les os.
GermanEin fröhlich Herz macht das Leben lustig; aber ein betrübter Mut vertrocknet das Gebein.
Haitian Creole¶ Kè kontan bay lasante. Men, lè ou kagou, w'ap deperi sou pye.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariHati yang gembira menyehatkan badan; hati yang murung mematahkan semangat.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaHati yang bersukacita itu akan membaiki obat, tetapi hati yang berdukacita itu mengeringkan tulang.
ItalianUn cuore lieto fa bene al corpo, uno spirito abbattuto inaridisce le ossa.
Maori¶ He rongoa pai te ngakau koa; ki te maru ia te wairua, ka maroke nga wheua.
NorwegianEt glad hjerte gir god lægedom, men et nedslått mot tar margen fra benene.
PortugueseO coração alegre serve de bom remédio; mas o espírito abatido seca os ossos.   
RumanianO inimq veselq este un bun leac, dar un duh mkhnit usucq oasele. -
RussianчЕУЕМПЕ УЕТДГЕ ВМБЗПФЧПТОП, ЛБЛ ЧТБЮЕЧУФЧП, Б ХОЩМЩК ДХИ УХЫЙФ ЛПУФЙ.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Healthy

Derivations

Words ending with "healthy": unhealthy. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Healthy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ealth, ealthy, haalth, heaithy, healthly, healths, healty, Herlihy, sealthy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Healthy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "healthy" (pronounced he"lthē)
5h e" l th ēunhealthy.
4-e" l th ēwealthy.
3-l th ēfilthy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Healthy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-h-l-t-y"

-1 letter: health, heathy, hyetal.

-2 letters: ethyl, heath, lathe, lathy.

-3 letters: eath, haet, hale, halt, hate, hath, heal, heat, heth, hyla, hyte, late, lath, tael, tale, teal, tela, thae, they, yeah.

-4 letters: ale, alt, ate, aye, eat, eta, eth, hae, hah, hat, hay, heh, het, hey, lat, lay, lea, let, ley, lye, tae, tea, tel, the.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-h-l-t-y"
 

+2 letters: halophyte, healthily, unhealthy.

 

+3 letters: halophytes, hypaethral.

 

+4 letters: healthfully, hotheadedly, hypothermal, thallophyte, unhealthily.

 

+5 letters: heathenishly, hydrothermal, hypothetical, thallophytes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Company Usage
17. Expressions
18. Expressions: Internet
19. Translations: Modern
20. Translations: Ancient
21. Bible Trace
22. Derivations
23. Rhymes
24. Anagrams
25. Bibliography


  

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