Antonym of the word healthy

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1. healthyadjective

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy

2. healthyadjective

   He was father to three healthy kids.

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy

3. healthyadjective

   Conducive to health.

   A healthy diet and exercise can help to maintain proper weight.

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy

   Synonyms:
   healthful

4. healthyadjective

   Sam unwrapped the sandwich and took a healthy bite out of the middle.

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy

5. healthyadjective

   Healthy spankings never fail to restore a rascal’s healthy respect for his educators, said dad while he gave Paul a healthy belting over the knee

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy

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1. healthy

   Healthy is most correctly used to signify possessing or enjoying health or its results; as, a healthy person; a healthy condition. Healthful signifies promotive of health, tending or adapted to confer, preserve, or promote health; as, a healthful climate. Wholesome food in a healthful climate makes a healthy man. With healthful are ranged the words hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, and wholesome, while the other words are associated with healthy. Salubrious is always used in the physical sense, and is chiefly applied to air or climate. Salutary is now chiefly used in the moral sense; as, a salutary lesson.

   Antonyms:
   delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, failing, fainting, fragile, frail, ill, sick, unhealthy, unsound, wasted, weak, worn, worn down, worn out

   Synonyms:
   hale, healthful, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sound, strong, vigorous, well, wholesome

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1. healthy

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy, unsound, weak, delicate, fragile, noxious, pernicious, insalubrious

   Synonyms:
   vigorous, sound, robust, strong, hale, salubrious, wholesome, hearty, healthful

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1. healthyadjective

   having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease

   «a rosy healthy baby»; «staying fit and healthy»

   Antonyms:
   turgid, gangrenous, diseased, mortified, icteric, cytomegalic, flatulent, intumescent, foamy, windburned, proinflammatory, gassy, wheezing, morbid, sunburned, inflamed, creaky, edematous, asthmatic, bloodshot, chilblained, frothing, dehydrated, blebby, foaming, blistery, ingrown, pro-inflammatory, yellow, pathological, enlarged, sickly, rheumatic, colicky, sallow, unwholesome, sore-eyed, ingrowing, dropsical, unsound, puffy, pathologic, unhealthy, inconsiderable, bad, caseous, jaundiced, unfit, carbuncled, carious, cankerous, ulcerous, tumid, angry, tumescent, membrane-forming, carbuncular, inflammatory, unreasonable, wheezy, mental, ulcerated, arthritic, windburnt, rheumy, rheumatoid, varicose, sunburnt, membranous

   Synonyms:
   sound, hefty, respectable, goodish, good for you(p), goodly, salubrious, sizeable, intelligent, level-headed, tidy, levelheaded, sizable

2. healthyadjective

   financially secure and functioning well

   «a healthy economy»

   Antonyms:
   chilblained, dropsical, ulcerated, caseous, creaky, gangrenous, rheumy, cankerous, blistery, enlarged, edematous, unreasonable, morbid, proinflammatory, bloodshot, sickly, unwholesome, turgid, intumescent, mortified, tumid, carious, yellow, rheumatic, membrane-forming, flatulent, sore-eyed, arthritic, foamy, bad, dehydrated, gassy, windburned, puffy, unsound, windburnt, carbuncled, ingrowing, cytomegalic, tumescent, icteric, foaming, blebby, rheumatoid, membranous, unfit, varicose, angry, inconsiderable, sallow, jaundiced, pathological, inflamed, mental, diseased, wheezy, ingrown, pro-inflammatory, frothing, ulcerous, pathologic, colicky, inflammatory, sunburnt, sunburned, carbuncular, asthmatic, unhealthy, wheezing

   Synonyms:
   sound, hefty, respectable, goodish, good for you(p), goodly, salubrious, sizeable, intelligent, level-headed, tidy, levelheaded, sizable

3. healthy, salubrious, good for you(p)adjective

   promoting health; healthful

   «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»

   Antonyms:
   caseous, arthritic, tumid, unfit, mortified, gassy, jaundiced, foamy, ulcerous, pro-inflammatory, cankerous, rheumatic, dropsical, intumescent, flatulent, cytomegalic, asthmatic, ulcerated, diseased, unreasonable, blistery, wheezy, colicky, unsound, ingrown, ingrowing, windburned, morbid, blebby, sickly, rheumy, bad, wheezing, chilblained, icteric, membranous, inconsiderable, sunburnt, inflammatory, tumescent, enlarged, angry, bloodshot, sunburned, carious, yellow, carbuncled, turgid, dehydrated, unwholesome, puffy, gangrenous, sallow, creaky, mental, varicose, windburnt, frothing, carbuncular, membrane-forming, pathologic, edematous, inflamed, unhealthy, proinflammatory, rheumatoid, pathological, foaming, sore-eyed

4. healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, soundadjective

   exercising or showing good judgment

   «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»

   Antonyms:
   pathological, cytomegalic, unreasonable, ulcerated, blistery, inflamed, colicky, inconsiderable, turgid, tumescent, foamy, foaming, unfit, chilblained, blebby, gassy, ingrowing, rheumy, gangrenous, sore-eyed, edematous, windburned, pro-inflammatory, angry, mortified, sunburnt, intumescent, morbid, flatulent, ulcerous, unhealthy, pathologic, unsound, cankerous, inflammatory, bloodshot, proinflammatory, dehydrated, varicose, sunburned, enlarged, membrane-forming, dropsical, mental, sickly, jaundiced, caseous, wheezy, ingrown, rheumatic, tumid, unwholesome, diseased, creaky, carbuncular, windburnt, frothing, icteric, bad, asthmatic, yellow, puffy, carious, wheezing, carbuncled, rheumatoid, membranous, sallow, arthritic

   Synonyms:
   levelheaded, reasoning(a), good, salubrious, well-informed, sizable, sound, wakeless, well-grounded, sizeable, effectual, thinking(a), hefty, profound, heavy, reasoned, legal, respectable, intelligent, goodly, goodish, level-headed, tidy, good for you(p)

5. goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidyadjective

   large in amount or extent or degree

   «it cost a considerable amount»; «a goodly amount»; «received a hefty bonus»; «a respectable sum»; «a tidy sum of money»; «a sizable fortune»

   Antonyms:
   pathologic, tumescent, morbid, rheumy, unhealthy, proinflammatory, edematous, chilblained, creaky, blistery, sore-eyed, gangrenous, intumescent, wheezing, cankerous, carbuncled, flatulent, diseased, varicose, unwholesome, rheumatoid, sickly, ingrowing, caseous, angry, mental, asthmatic, inflamed, inconsiderable, inflammatory, sallow, ulcerous, unreasonable, unfit, icteric, gassy, ingrown, jaundiced, ulcerated, foamy, rheumatic, turgid, arthritic, unsound, dropsical, pro-inflammatory, dehydrated, wheezy, sunburnt, puffy, carbuncular, mortified, sunburned, windburned, carious, cytomegalic, bad, membranous, pathological, blebby, colicky, yellow, tumid, membrane-forming, bloodshot, foaming, enlarged, frothing, windburnt

   Synonyms:
   levelheaded, good, brawny, powerful, honorable, sizable, sound, kempt, sizeable, hefty, salubrious, respectable, sinewy, ample, intelligent, estimable, goodly, goodish, level-headed, muscular, tidy, good for you(p)

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1. healthyadjective

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy, ill, sickly, morbid, delicate, diseased

   Synonyms:
   hale, well, hearty, salubrious, salutary, wholesome

How to use healthy in a sentence?

1. Victor Henderson:

   It is safe to say that a well-balanced diet such as the Mediterranean diet is a healthy diet, and this research provides exciting new support for this common-sense perspective, still, from my perspective, more clinical trial results are needed for a more specific take-home message.

2. Tobias Harris:

   We want him to get healthy, we want him to be with the group when he’s ready.

3. Bryce Harper:

   I think we’re coming into our own as a team, everybody’s getting healthy. And we’re just looking forward to the next couple of games, getting into the All-Star break and enjoying our time down, coming back and get going.

4. Molly Burdick:

   It made the healthy parts of my heart stronger and pump a lot better.

5. Rachel Levine:

   As a pediatrician, when it comes to making sure kids are healthy and happy, I know how important care that affirms someone’s true identity can be.

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