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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"
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



... suffice to ruin you. If you turn out a great player, one half the genius you expend upon it will conquer a kingdom or found an empire. If you prefer oxygen to air—gamble! If you think aquafortis healthier than water—gamble! If you consider fever and fire the proper components of your blood—gamble! Take my advice, and never touch a card again—your bond is ...
— The Youth of Jefferson - A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 • Anonymous
... Ariel, scraping the palette attentively. "It's healthier with only breakfast and supper. I think I'd rather have a new dress ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington
... danger presented by the passage of the Syrtes and the risk of encountering wild beasts. His urgent entreaty induced my friends the Appii to allow me to leave them and to become his guest in his mother's house. I should find the situation healthier, he said, and should get a freer view of the sea—a special attraction ...
— The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura • Lucius Apuleius
... finding several non-esthetic reasons why peculiarly moulded skulls were approved of. The Nicaraguans, as I have already stated, believed that heads were moulded in order to make it easier to bear burdens, and the Peruvians also said they pressed the heads of children to make them healthier and able to do more work. But vanity—individual or tribal—and fashion were the principal motives. According to Torquemada, the kings were the first who had their heads shaped, and afterward permission to follow ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... I doubt if any life could be much healthier than ours was on the Livorno. Dress, for each of us alike, consisted of two garments only, shirt and trousers. Unless when going inland for some reason, we went always barefoot. Of what use could shoes be on the ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson


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