Synonyms for healthy
ˈhɛl θihealthy

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1. healthyadjective

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy

2. healthyadjective

   He was father to three healthy kids.

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy

3. healthyadjective

   Conducive to health.

   A healthy diet and exercise can help to maintain proper weight.

   Synonyms:
   healthful

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy

4. healthyadjective

   Sam unwrapped the sandwich and took a healthy bite out of the middle.

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy

5. healthyadjective

   Healthy spankings never fail to restore a rascal's healthy respect for his educators, said dad while he gave Paul a healthy belting over the knee

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy

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1. healthy

   Healthy is most correctly used to signify possessing or enjoying health or its results; as, a healthy person; a healthy condition. Healthful signifies promotive of health, tending or adapted to confer, preserve, or promote health; as, a healthful climate. Wholesome food in a healthful climate makes a healthy man. With healthful are ranged the words hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, and wholesome, while the other words are associated with healthy. Salubrious is always used in the physical sense, and is chiefly applied to air or climate. Salutary is now chiefly used in the moral sense; as, a salutary lesson.

   Synonyms:
   hale, healthful, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sound, strong, vigorous, well, wholesome

   Antonyms:
   delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, failing, fainting, fragile, frail, ill, sick, unhealthy, unsound, wasted, weak, worn, worn down, worn out

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. healthy

   Synonyms:
   vigorous, sound, robust, strong, hale, salubrious, wholesome, hearty, healthful

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy, unsound, weak, delicate, fragile, noxious, pernicious, insalubrious

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. healthyadjective

   having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease

   "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"

   Synonyms:
   sound, hefty, respectable, goodish, good for you(p), goodly, salubrious, sizeable, intelligent, level-headed, tidy, levelheaded, sizable

   Antonyms:
   turgid, gangrenous, diseased, mortified, icteric, cytomegalic, flatulent, intumescent, foamy, windburned, proinflammatory, gassy, wheezing, morbid, sunburned, inflamed, creaky, edematous, asthmatic, bloodshot, chilblained, frothing, dehydrated, blebby, foaming, blistery, ingrown, pro-inflammatory, yellow, pathological, enlarged, sickly, rheumatic, colicky, sallow, unwholesome, sore-eyed, ingrowing, dropsical, unsound, puffy, pathologic, unhealthy, inconsiderable, bad, caseous, jaundiced, unfit, carbuncled, carious, cankerous, ulcerous, tumid, angry, tumescent, membrane-forming, carbuncular, inflammatory, unreasonable, wheezy, mental, ulcerated, arthritic, windburnt, rheumy, rheumatoid, varicose, sunburnt, membranous

2. healthyadjective

   financially secure and functioning well

   "a healthy economy"

   Synonyms:
   sound, hefty, respectable, goodish, good for you(p), goodly, salubrious, sizeable, intelligent, level-headed, tidy, levelheaded, sizable

   Antonyms:
   chilblained, dropsical, ulcerated, caseous, creaky, gangrenous, rheumy, cankerous, blistery, enlarged, edematous, unreasonable, morbid, proinflammatory, bloodshot, sickly, unwholesome, turgid, intumescent, mortified, tumid, carious, yellow, rheumatic, membrane-forming, flatulent, sore-eyed, arthritic, foamy, bad, dehydrated, gassy, windburned, puffy, unsound, windburnt, carbuncled, ingrowing, cytomegalic, tumescent, icteric, foaming, blebby, rheumatoid, membranous, unfit, varicose, angry, inconsiderable, sallow, jaundiced, pathological, inflamed, mental, diseased, wheezy, ingrown, pro-inflammatory, frothing, ulcerous, pathologic, colicky, inflammatory, sunburnt, sunburned, carbuncular, asthmatic, unhealthy, wheezing

3. healthy, salubrious, good for you(p)adjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   caseous, arthritic, tumid, unfit, mortified, gassy, jaundiced, foamy, ulcerous, pro-inflammatory, cankerous, rheumatic, dropsical, intumescent, flatulent, cytomegalic, asthmatic, ulcerated, diseased, unreasonable, blistery, wheezy, colicky, unsound, ingrown, ingrowing, windburned, morbid, blebby, sickly, rheumy, bad, wheezing, chilblained, icteric, membranous, inconsiderable, sunburnt, inflammatory, tumescent, enlarged, angry, bloodshot, sunburned, carious, yellow, carbuncled, turgid, dehydrated, unwholesome, puffy, gangrenous, sallow, creaky, mental, varicose, windburnt, frothing, carbuncular, membrane-forming, pathologic, edematous, inflamed, unhealthy, proinflammatory, rheumatoid, pathological, foaming, sore-eyed

4. healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, soundadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   levelheaded, reasoning(a), good, salubrious, well-informed, sizable, sound, wakeless, well-grounded, sizeable, effectual, thinking(a), hefty, profound, heavy, reasoned, legal, respectable, intelligent, goodly, goodish, level-headed, tidy, good for you(p)

   Antonyms:
   pathological, cytomegalic, unreasonable, ulcerated, blistery, inflamed, colicky, inconsiderable, turgid, tumescent, foamy, foaming, unfit, chilblained, blebby, gassy, ingrowing, rheumy, gangrenous, sore-eyed, edematous, windburned, pro-inflammatory, angry, mortified, sunburnt, intumescent, morbid, flatulent, ulcerous, unhealthy, pathologic, unsound, cankerous, inflammatory, bloodshot, proinflammatory, dehydrated, varicose, sunburned, enlarged, membrane-forming, dropsical, mental, sickly, jaundiced, caseous, wheezy, ingrown, rheumatic, tumid, unwholesome, diseased, creaky, carbuncular, windburnt, frothing, icteric, bad, asthmatic, yellow, puffy, carious, wheezing, carbuncled, rheumatoid, membranous, sallow, arthritic

5. goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidyadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   levelheaded, good, brawny, powerful, honorable, sizable, sound, kempt, sizeable, hefty, salubrious, respectable, sinewy, ample, intelligent, estimable, goodly, goodish, level-headed, muscular, tidy, good for you(p)

   Antonyms:
   pathologic, tumescent, morbid, rheumy, unhealthy, proinflammatory, edematous, chilblained, creaky, blistery, sore-eyed, gangrenous, intumescent, wheezing, cankerous, carbuncled, flatulent, diseased, varicose, unwholesome, rheumatoid, sickly, ingrowing, caseous, angry, mental, asthmatic, inflamed, inconsiderable, inflammatory, sallow, ulcerous, unreasonable, unfit, icteric, gassy, ingrown, jaundiced, ulcerated, foamy, rheumatic, turgid, arthritic, unsound, dropsical, pro-inflammatory, dehydrated, wheezy, sunburnt, puffy, carbuncular, mortified, sunburned, windburned, carious, cytomegalic, bad, membranous, pathological, blebby, colicky, yellow, tumid, membrane-forming, bloodshot, foaming, enlarged, frothing, windburnt

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1. healthyadjective

   Synonyms:
   sound, hale, hearty, vigorous, well, in good health, in good case

2. healthyadjective

   Synonyms:
   wholesome, salubrious, salutary, healthful, health-giving

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1. healthyadjective

   Synonyms:
   hale, well, hearty, salubrious, salutary, wholesome

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy, ill, sickly, morbid, delicate, diseased

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1. List of paraphrases for "healthy":

   sound, health, wholesome, sano, healthful, salutary, healthier, sana, sain, safe, uninfected, good, clean, sane, able-bodied, salubrious, robust, benign

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1. Jean Todt:

   If a team has some doubts, they could have made a protest, it would be much more healthy rather than to manipulate the press to address the problem.

2. Bryce Harper:

   I think we're coming into our own as a team, everybody's getting healthy. And we're just looking forward to the next couple of games, getting into the All-Star break and enjoying our time down, coming back and get going.

3. Barbara Colorose:

   If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

4. The Warriors:

   At this point, the most important thing is to make sure Steve is healthy, completely recovered and ready for not only the rigors of a long NBA season, but day-to-day life in general, the Warriors don't anticipate the recovery process will be long term, but as of today The Warriors don't know the exact time frame.

5. Olivia Okereke:

   Many of the men consuming the highest amounts of trans fat may also be the ones with the least healthy lifestyles or with the highest prevalence of health problems.