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healthy

adj
/ˈhɛl.θi/US/ˈhel.θi/

Etymology

From health + -y.

  1. derived from *hailaz✻
  2. inherited from *hailiþō✻
  3. inherited from *hailiþu✻
  4. inherited from hǣlþ
  5. inherited from helthe
  6. formed as healthy — “health + -y”

Definitions

  1. Enjoying good health

    Enjoying good health; free from disease or disorder.

    • He was father to three healthy kids.
    • a healthy mind in a healthy body
    • Brush regularly to keep your teeth and gums strong and healthy.

  2. Conducive to health.

    • A healthy diet can help to maintain proper weight.
    • It was heretical to say that protein wasn't healthy, let alone say it promoted cancer.

  3. Evincing health.

    • Her face had a healthy glow.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Significant, hefty

      Significant, hefty; beneficial.

      • a healthy respect for authority
      • Sam unwrapped the sandwich and took a healthy bite out of the middle.
      • a healthy dislike, a healthy contempt

The neighborhood

Derived

a healthy body is a healthy mind, healthification, healthify, healthily, healthiness, healthy as a horse, healthy participant effect, healthy user bias, healthy worker bias, heart-healthy, nonhealthy, superhealthy, unhealthy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at healthy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at healthy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at healthy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA