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'

  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: salubrious , good for you ]

  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: 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 , hefty , respectable , sizable , sizeable , tidy ]

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