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Definition: Healthy |
HealthyAdjective1. 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) |
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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. |
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Synonyms: HealthySynonyms: fit (adj), good for you(p) (adj), intelligent (adj), levelheaded (adj), salubrious (adj), sound (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: unfit (adj), unhealthy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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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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) | |
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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). |
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| "Fast food, healthy" by M.Jander Commentary: "Kitchen things: salad if in a hurry." | "Healthy dinner :)" by Radek Siechowicz Commentary: "Healthy dinner :)." |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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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 |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(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. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | During 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 | 1963-1969 | Greatness requires not only an educated people but a healthy people. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | One test of a healthy economy is a job for every American who wants to work. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | After taxes and inflation, there was a healthy increase in workers' wages. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our communities are only as healthy as the air our children breathe, the water they drink, the Earth they will inherit. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We cannot be satisfied until every part of our economy is healthy and vigorous. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.75% | 3,540 | 2,747 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.2% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (common) | 0.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,585 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Healthy Planet Products, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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 |
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| 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), 健 . (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), 佶 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | silim. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sanus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | baêshazya. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | halwende. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kardia eufrainomenh euektein poiei androV de luphrou xhrainetai ta osta |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Animus gaudens aetatem floridam facit spiritus tristis exsiccat ossa |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ioyende inwit maketh briyt age; a drery spirit ful out drieth bones. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry. |
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| Language | Proverbs 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. |
| Croatian | Veselo je srce izvrstan lijek, a neveseo duh suši kosti. |
| Danish | Glad Hjerte er godt for Legemet, nedslået Sind suger Marv af Benene. |
| Dutch | Een blij hart zal een medicijn goed maken; maar een verslagen geest zal het gebeente verdrogen. |
| Finnish | Terveydeksi on iloinen sydän, mutta murtunut mieli kuivuttaa luut. |
| French | Un coeur joyeux est un bon remède, Mais un esprit abattu dessèche les os. |
| German | Ein 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-hari | Hati yang gembira menyehatkan badan; hati yang murung mematahkan semangat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hati yang bersukacita itu akan membaiki obat, tetapi hati yang berdukacita itu mengeringkan tulang. |
| Italian | Un 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. |
| Norwegian | Et glad hjerte gir god lægedom, men et nedslått mot tar margen fra benene. |
| Portuguese | O coração alegre serve de bom remédio; mas o espírito abatido seca os ossos. |
| Rumanian | O inimq veselq este un bun leac, dar un duh mkhnit usucq oasele. - |
| Russian | чЕУЕМПЕ УЕТДГЕ ВМБЗПФЧПТОП, ЛБЛ ЧТБЮЕЧУФЧП, Б ХОЩМЩК ДХИ УХЫЙФ ЛПУФЙ. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "healthy": unhealthy. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "healthy" (pronounced he"lthē) |
| 5 | h e" l th ē | unhealthy. |
| 4 | -e" l th ē | wealthy. |
| 3 | -l th ē | filthy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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