healthy
pronunciation
How to pronounce healthy in British English:
UK [ˈhelθi]
How to pronounce healthy in American English:
US [ˈhelθi]
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- Adjective:
- having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease
- financially secure and functioning well
- promoting health; healthful
- physically and mentally sound or healthy
- exercising or showing good judgment
Word Origin
- healthy (adj.)
- 1550s, "being in a sound state;" also "conducive to health," from health + -y (2). Earlier in the same sense was healthsome (1530s). Related: Healthily; healthiness. It is wrong to say that certain articles of food are healthy or unhealthy. Wholesome and unwholesome are the right words. A pig may be healthy or unhealthy while alive; but after he is killed and becomes pork, he can enjoy no health, and suffer no sickness. [Eliza Leslie, "Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book," Philadelphia, 1839] Healthsome is from 1530s in the sense "bestowing health."
Example
- 1. But he was strong and healthy .
- 2. Cornel is sour , but tasty and healthy berry .
- 3. It must have healthy profits and sane risk and pay policies .
- 4. How many years of healthy living before you die ?
- 5. The infection of healthy capitalism with a terminal case of greed ?