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单词 healthy
释义 healthy
\-thē, -thi\ adjective
(-er/-est)
1.
 a. : enjoying good health : free from disease : functioning properly or normally in its vital functions
  < the examination revealed him to be a perfectly healthy man >
  < a healthy body >
  < healthy eyes are a precious possession >
  < a healthy tree >
 b. : conducive to health : salutary
  < walk three miles every day … a beastly bore, but healthy — G.S.Patton >
  < his life recently had not been a healthy one — A. Conan Doyle >
  < the healthiest damned island in the Pacific — John Dos Passos >
 c. : indicating, reflecting, or suggestive of health
  < a healthy color in his cheeks — Charles Dickens >
  < the healthy smell of grain — T.B.Costain >
  < stretched her arms over her head with a gesture of healthy fatigue — Ellen Glasgow >
2.
 a. : morally or spiritually wholesome : not sickly, morbid, or sentimental : tending toward or indicating moral health
  < their principal purpose of giving our children healthy entertainment — Coulton Waugh >
  < that's a good healthy, cynical approach — James Street >
  < healthy vulgarity inseparable from all vital human works — Albert Dasnoy >
  < in healthy reaction to the romantic fustian of the … nineteenth century — Christopher Fry >
 b. : free from malfunctioning of any kind : viable, prosperous, flourishing, desirable
  < the restoration of a healthy economy >
  < not a healthy state of affairs >
  < the negative plates are probably defective … requiring an extended period of charging and discharging to put them back in a healthy condition — A.L.Dyke >
  < a healthy book-publishing business — Harry Botsford >
 c. : productive of good of any kind : positive, beneficial
  < showed his formidable ships of war … making a very healthy impression — C.S.Forester >
  < the creation of a healthy rivalry between the services — H.B.Hinton >
 d. : large in quantity or degree : considerable, massive
  < repairs … account for a healthy bit of income — Bill Wolf >
  < the product carries a healthy price tag — Printers' Ink >
 e. : vigorous, hearty
  < a healthy appetite >
  < gives the boat a healthy shove … into deeper water — All Hands >
3. : safe — usually used in negative construction
 < not so healthy to be around … they might take a pop at us — Giorgio De Santillana >
 < not a healthy spot to be in at that time — H.A.Chippendale >
Synonyms:
 sound, wholesome, robust, hale, well: healthy can imply (1) the possession of full vigor of mind or body or (2) merely freedom from any sign of disease or morbidity
  < a family with four healthy, active boys >
  < keep a child healthy during the winter >
  < a healthy outlook on life >
  sound implies more strongly the absence of all defects of mind or body
  < develop vigorous children, sound in mind and body >
  < sound of limb and healthy of mind >
  wholesome implies a healthiness that impresses others favorably, especially as indicating physical, moral, or mental soundness or balance
  < her hair carelessly pinned back, her eyes shining, her face aglow, looking oddly wholesome in a smeared white painter's smock — Herman Wouk >
  < a short strongly made woman, wholesome and still youthful — C.B. Nordhoff & J.N.Hall >
  robust is the opposite of delicate, implying a vigor manifest in muscularity, solidity, strength of voice, power of endurance, and so on
  < was looking robust and full of health and vigor — Samuel Butler †1902 >
  < robust and tough in fiber — I.A.Gordon >
  < the giant zinnias are so robust here that you can transplant them in full bloom — Barrett McGurn >
  hale applies chiefly to elderly persons who still retain physical qualities of men in their prime
  < this particular black panther was not old and sore, like many man-eaters. It was an exceedingly hale animal — David Walker >
  < his father, though an old man, was still hale — Sheila Kaye-Smith >
  < now in his 80th year but still alert, hale and hearty — Wesfarmers News >
  well merely implies freedom from disease
  < stay well amidst disease and poverty >
  < seemingly doomed to constant illness, only once in a while did he feel really well >
Synonym: see in addition healthful.
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