healthy

/ˈhɛlθi/

/ˈhɛlθi/

Other forms: healthier; healthiest

Healthy means having good health. It's the opposite of sick, but also can mean "doing well" in a general sense. You can have a healthy attitude, or be served a healthy portion of food.

Health is one of the most fundamental human concerns. The ubiquitous "How are you?" is often asking after a person's health. To remember healthy think of the proverb: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise."

Definitions of healthy

1. adjective

   having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease
   “a rosy healthy baby”

   “staying fit and healthy”

   synonyms:

   fit

   physically and mentally sound or healthy

   flushed, rose-cheeked, rosy, rosy-cheeked

   having the pinkish flush of health

   bouncing

   vigorously healthy

   firm

   possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue

   good, sound

   in excellent physical condition

   hale, whole

   exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health

   hearty

   consuming abundantly and with gusto

   full-blooded, hearty, lusty, red-blooded

   endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health

   anicteric

   not affected by jaundice

   rock-loving

   of plants that flourish in a rocky environment

   florid, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine

   inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life

   sun-loving

   (of plants) flourishing in strong sunlight

   water-loving

   (of plants) flourishing with lots of water

   well-preserved

   used of older persons who are healthy

   wholesome

   sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind

   robust

   sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction

   well

   in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury

   wholesome

   conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being

   antonyms:

   unhealthy

   not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind

   unfit

   not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition

   angry

   severely inflamed and painful

   arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy

   of or pertaining to arthritis

   asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy

   relating to breathing with a whistling sound

   bad, unfit, unsound

   physically unsound or diseased

   blebby, blistery

   covered with small blisters

   intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid

   abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

   bloodshot

   (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed

   cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous

   having an ulcer or canker

   carbuncled, carbuncular

   afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle

   carious

   (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay

   caseous

   of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike

   chilblained

   having chilblains

   colicky, flatulent, gassy

   suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal

   cytomegalic

   of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells

   dehydrated

   suffering from excessive loss of water from the body

   diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological

   caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology

   dropsical, edematous

   swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid

   enlarged

   larger than normal

   foaming, foamy, frothing

   producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease

   gangrenous, mortified

   suffering from tissue death

   inflamed

   resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened

   inflammatory

   characterized or caused by inflammation

   ingrowing, ingrown

   growing abnormally into the flesh

   icteric, jaundiced, yellow

   affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

   membrane-forming, membranous

   characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane)

   mental

   affected by a disorder of the mind

   pro-inflammatory, proinflammatory

   tending to cause inflammation

   sallow, sickly

   unhealthy looking

   sore-eyed

   having sore eyes; suffering from pinkeye or conjunctivitis

   sunburned, sunburnt

   suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight

   varicose

   abnormally swollen or knotty

   windburned, windburnt

   suffering from windburn

   frail

   physically weak

   ill, sick

   affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

   unwholesome

   detrimental to physical or moral well-being
2. adjective

   promoting health; healthful
   “a healthy diet”

   “clean healthy air”

   “plenty of healthy sleep”

   “healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy”

   synonyms: good for you, salubrious

   wholesome

   conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being
3. adjective

   exercising or showing good judgment
   “healthy scepticism”

   “a healthy fear of rattlesnakes”

   “the healthy attitude of French laws”

   “healthy relations between labor and management”

   synonyms: intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded, sound

   reasonable, sensible

   showing reason or sound judgment
4. adjective

   large in amount or extent or degree
   synonyms: goodish, goodly, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy

   considerable

   large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree
5. adjective

   financially secure and functioning well
   “a healthy economy”

   synonyms:

   sound

   financially secure and safe