healthy

English

Etymology

health +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhɛl.θi/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlθi

Adjective

healthy (comparative healthier, superlative healthiest)

1. Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.

   He was father to three healthy kids.

2. Conducive to health.

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

3. Evincing health.

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

4. (figuratively) Significant, hefty; beneficial.

   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

Synonyms

• (conducive to health): healthful

Antonyms

• unhealthy

Derived terms

• healthily
• healthiness

Related terms

• heal
• healing
• whole

Translations

enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: صحي (ar) (ṣiḥḥī)
• Armenian: առողջ (hy) (aṙołǰ) 
• Aromanian: sãn (rup)
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: sağlam (az)
• Belarusian: здаровы (be) (zdaróvy) 
• Bulgarian: здрав (bg) (zdrav) 
• Catalan: salubre (ca)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 健康 (cmn) (jiànkāng)

• Czech: zdravý (cs) m
• Danish: sund (da)
• Dutch: gezond (nl)
• Esperanto: sana (eo)
• Faroese: frískur (fo)
• Finnish: terve (fi), hyvinvoiva (fi)
• French: sain (fr), ‎en bonne santé

  Old French: sain

• Friulian: san, salubri, rubest
• Galician: saudable (gl), san (gl)
• Georgian: ჯანსაღი (ka) (ǰansaḡi) 
• German: gesund (de)
• Greek: υγιής (el) (ygiís) m , γερός (el) (gerós) m 
• Hindi: निरोग (hi) (nirōg), चंगा (hi) (caṅgā)
• Irish: folláin (ga), sláintiúil (ga)
• Japanese: 健康な (ja) (けんこうな, kenkō na), 達者な (ja) (たっしゃな, tassha na)
• Kazakh: тәуір (kk) (täwir) 
• Korean: 건강한 (ko) (geongang-han)
• Latin: sanus (la)
• Latvian: vesels (lv), veselīgs (lv)
• Lithuanian: sveikas (lt)

• Macedonian: здрав (mk) (zdrav) m
• Mizo: hrisël
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: san (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: съдравъ (sŭdravŭ)

  Glagolitic: ⰔⰟⰄⰓⰀⰂⰟ (sŭdravŭ)

• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: تندرست (fa) (tandarast)
• Portuguese: saudável (pt) m and f
• Romanian: sănătos (ro)
• Romansch: saun (rm), san (rm), sàn (rm), sang (rm)
• Russian: здоровый (ru) (zdoróvyj) 
• Sanskrit: कल्य (sa) (kalya), स्वस्थ (sa) (svastha), नीरोग (sa) (nīrōga)
• Sardinian: sanu (sc)
• Scots: hailsome
• Scottish Gaelic: fallain (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: здра̏в (sh)

  Roman: zdrȁv (sh)

• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: zdravý (sk)
• Slovene: zdrav (sl)
• Spanish: saludable (es), sano (es) m
• Thai: แข็งแรง (th) (kăeng raeng)
• Turkish: sağlıklı (tr)
• Turkmen: salaamatly (tk)
• Tuvan: кадык (kadyk), кадыкшылдыг (kadykšyldyg)
• Ukrainian: здоровий (uk) (zdoróvyj) 
• Urdu: نیروگ (ur) (nirōg), صحت مند (ur) (sēhat-mand)
• Vietnamese: khỏe mạnh (vi)
• Welsh: iach (cy)
• Zulu: -phila (zu)

conducive to health

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 健康 (cmn) (jiànkāng)

• Czech: zdravý (cs) m
• Dutch: gezond (nl)
• Finnish: terveellinen (fi)
• Galician: saudable (gl), san (gl)
• German: gesund (de)
• Greek: υγιεινός (el) (ygieinós) m 
• Japanese: 健康的な (ja) (けんこうてきな, kenkōteki na)
• Latin: sanus (la)
• Latvian: veselīgs (lv)

• Lithuanian: sveikas (lt), sveikatingas (lt)
• Macedonian: здрав (mk) (zdrav) m
• Mizo: hrisël
• Portuguese: saudável (pt) m and f
• Russian: здоровый (ru) (zdoróvyj) , полезный (ru) (poléznyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: здра̏в (sh)

  Roman: zdrȁv (sh)

• Slovene: zdrav (sl)
• Spanish: saludable (es), sano (es) m

evincing health

• Dutch: hartig (nl)
• Finnish: reilu (fi)
• French: sain (fr), en bonne santé (fr)
• Galician: saudable (gl), san (gl)
• German: gesund (de), anständig (de)
• Greek: υγιής (el) (ygiís) m 
• Macedonian: здрав (mk) (zdrav) m

• Russian: здоровый (ru) (zdoróvyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: здра̏в (sh)

  Roman: zdrȁv (sh)

• Spanish: saludable (es), sano (es) m

significant, hefty

• Dutch: gezond (nl), deugdelijk (nl), duchtig (nl), hartig (nl)
• Finnish: terve (fi), kunnollinen (fi)
• Greek: εύρωστος (el) (évrostos) m 

• Macedonian: здрав (mk) (zdrav) m
• Russian: здоровый (ru) (zdoróvyj) 

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Translations to be checked

• Armenian: պիտանի (hy) (pitani) 
• Czech: zdravý (cs)
• Dutch: gezond (nl), abel (nl) (archaic)
• Esperanto: sana (eo)
• Estonian: terve (et)

• Greek: ικανός (el) (ikanós) 
• Italian: sano (it)
• Korean: 기운 있는 (ko) (giun inneun), 건강한 (ko)
• Latin: sanus (la)
• Norwegian: frisk (no)
• Portuguese: saudável (pt)
• Spanish: sano (es)

• Tagalog: malusog Maigi (tl), Yanu (tl)
• Telugu: (aarOgyakaramaina) ఆరోగ్యవంతమైన (te), (aarOgyavaMtamaina) ఆరోగ్యకరమైన (te)

External links

• healthy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• healthy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911