adjective
- Having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease.
- usage: "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"
- Financially secure and functioning well.
- usage: "a healthy economy"
- Promoting health; healthful.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: salubrious, good for you
- Exercising or showing good judgment.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound
- Large in amount or extent or degree.
- usage: "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune"
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