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Healthier   /hˈɛlθiər/   Listen
Healthier

adjective
1.
Improved in health or physical condition.  Synonym: fitter.


Healthy

adjective
(compar. healthier; superl. healthiest)
1.
Having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease.  "Staying fit and healthy"  Antonym: unhealthy.
2.
Financially secure and functioning well.
3.
Promoting health; healthful.  Synonyms: good for you, salubrious.  "Clean healthy air" , "Plenty of healthy sleep" , "Healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy" , "The salubrious mountain air and water" , "Carrots are good for you"
4.
Exercising or showing good judgment.  Synonyms: intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded, sound.  "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"
5.
Large in amount or extent or degree.  Synonyms: goodish, goodly, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy.  "A goodly amount" , "Received a hefty bonus" , "A respectable sum" , "A tidy sum of money" , "A sizable fortune"



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"Healthier" Quotes from Famous Books



... find a healthier, more stimulating, and more suggestive story to put into the hands of ...
— In Blue Creek Canon • Anna Chapin Ray
... in the devil's country, and murder is not safe; it is a crime. Abraham and Saul lived in a healthier climate—in God's congressional district, where murder was above par and decency was out of fashion. Take it all in all, and the devil seems ...
— Men, Women, and Gods - And Other Lectures • Helen H. Gardener
... It was the first village we had come to during the retreat, whence all the civilian inhabitants had not fled, and the cook talked of fresh eggs for breakfast. I shaved and had a scrub down, put on a clean collar, and gained a healthier outlook on life generally. I sent out the four cycle orderlies to scout around and find the battery waggon lines, which I knew were coming to this vicinity, and the A.S.C. supply officer rode up and discussed the best place for unloading the morrow's food and forage for ...
— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
... Shrewsbury River has been some two feet deeper since the Hook became an island, the boating and fishing have much improved, and, above all, the current has become so much stronger that the river can now drain itself, and has become much healthier in consequence. ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 38, July 29, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various
... inquired pathetically, "What was the use of flaying a dead man?" To these hints I paid no attention, though my damp riding habit was steaming from the heat of the fire and I felt dreadfully tired; for certainly there seemed to my eyes a healthier tinge stealing over the rigid features, and it could not be my fancy which detected a stronger effort to swallow ...
— Station Amusements • Lady Barker


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