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healthy meaning

EN[ˈhɛl.θi] [-ɛlθi]
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    Definition of healthy in English Dictionary

  • AdjectiveCOMhealthierSUPhealthiestSUF-y
    1. Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.
      1. He was father to three healthy kids. ‎
    2. Conducive to health.
      1. A healthy diet and exercise can help to maintain proper weight. ‎
    3. Evincing health.
      1. (figuratively) Significant, hefty; beneficial.
        1. a healthy respect for authority ‎
        2. Sam unwrapped the sandwich and took a healthy bite out of the middle. ‎
    4. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • After an AAP of 20–98 days, each adult individual was transferred to a healthy yuzu, tankan mandarin, unzoki, or orange jessamine seedling for an IAP of 4–23 days.
        • Total RNA was extracted from 69 fresh endometrium samples collected from 21 healthy female dogs during diestrus, 16 CEH, 15 mucometra and 17 pyometra (eight open and nine closed-cervixes).
        • First, task performance of patients with known lesions (e.g. stroke) or neurophysiologic aberrations (e.g. dopamine deficiency in Parkinson’s disease) can be compared to healthy control subjects.
      2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
        • Did you see how she waits on him hand and foot? It's not healthy.
        • He would move heaven and earth to make sure his family is healthy.
        • She always got white rice at Chinese restaurants even though she knew the brown rice was healthier.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Adjectives
        • Morphemes
          • Suffixes
            • Words by suffix
              • Words suffixed with -y
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        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of healthy for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "healthy" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe.
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