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| Main Entry: | healthful/healthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good for one's wellness |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, aseptic, beneficial, benign, bracing, cathartic, clean, conducive, corrective, desirable, fresh, harmless, healing, helpful, hygienic, innocuous, invigorating, nourishing, nutritious, profitable, pure, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, stimulating, tonic, unadulterated, useful, wholesome, aiding, body-building, compensatory, disease-free, energy-giving, health-giving, mitigative, nutritive, sanatory, sustaining, unpolluted, untainted |
| Antonyms: | bad, corrupt, diseased, noxious, rotten, sickening, unhealthful, unhealthy |
| Main Entry: | healthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in good condition |
| Synonyms: | able-bodied, active, all right, athletic, blooming, chipper*, firm, fit, flourishing, fresh, hale, hardy, healthful, hearty, husky, lively, lusty, muscular, normal, potent, restored, robust, sound, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, trim, unimpaired, vigorous, virile, well, whole, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, full of life, in fine feather, in fine fettle, in good shape, in the pink, physically fit, rosy-cheeked, safe and sound |
| Notes: | healthy is a positive descriptive of a person's (or personified thing's) physical state; healthful of something that favorably affects or promotes that state |
| Antonyms: | diseased, fragile, ill, indisposed, infirm, poor, sick, sickly, unhealthy, worn, delicated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | better |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improved in health |
| Synonyms: | convalescent, improving, mending, recovering, well, cured, fitter, fully recovered, healthier, less ill, more healthy, on the comeback trail, on the mend, on the road to recovery, out of the woods, over the hump, progressing, stronger |
| Antonyms: | unhealthy, worse, more ill, sicker |
| Main Entry: | able-bodied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically strong and capable |
| Synonyms: | firm, fit, hale, hardy, healthy, hearty, lusty, powerful, robust, staunch, stout, strapping*, sturdy, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | delicate, infirm, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | all right |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in good condition or health |
| Synonyms: | hale, healthy, safe, sound, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, well, whole |
| Antonyms: | sick, unhealthy |
| Main Entry: | appreciable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily noticed; considerable |
| Synonyms: | apparent, clear-cut, definite, discernible, estimable, evident, healthy, large, manifest, marked, material, measurable, noticeable, observable, obvious, perceivable, perceptible, plain, pronounced, sensible, significant, sizable, substantial, tangible, visible, ascertainable, detectable, distinguishable, good-sized, goodly, recognizable |
| Antonyms: | imperceptible, negligible, unnoticed, inconsiderable, unappreciable |
| Main Entry: | buxom |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bosomy |
| Synonyms: | ample, built, chubby, comely, curvaceous, healthy, hearty, lusty, plump, robust, shapely, voluptuous, well-made, well-rounded, busty, curvy, full-bosomed, full-figured, stacked, well-proportioned, zaftig |
| Antonyms: | flat, petite, small |
| Main Entry: | comfortable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good feeling |
| Synonyms: | adequate, agreeable, appropriate, cheerful, complacent, contented, convenient, cozy, delightful, easy, enjoyable, hale, happy, healthy, hearty, loose, pleasant, pleased, protected, relieved, rested, restful, restored, satisfactory, satisfying, serene, sheltered, snug, soft, untroubled, useful, warm, well-off, at rest, cared for, enjoying, gratified, loose-fitting, made well, relaxed, relaxing, snug as a bug in a rug, soothed, strengthened |
| Antonyms: | discontented, hopeless, miserable, neglected, uncomfortable, unhappy, upset |
| Main Entry: | fortunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having good luck |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, affluent, auspicious, blessed, bright, charmed, convenient, encouraging, favorable, favored, felicitous, flourishing, fortuitous, golden, happy, healthy, helpful, hopeful, lucky, on a roll*, opportune, profitable, promising, propitious, prosperous, rosy, sitting pretty, successful, thriving, timely, triumphant, victorious, wealthy, well-off, well-to-do, born with a silver spoon, gaining, get a break, in luck, in the gravy, overcoming, providential, sunny side |
| Antonyms: | adverse, sad, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, upset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | good |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | useful, adequate |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, advantageous, all right, ample, appropriate, apt, auspicious, becoming, beneficial, brave, common, conformable, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, favorable, fit, fitting, fruitful, healthful, healthy, helpful, hygienic, meet, needed, opportune, profitable, proper, propitious, respectable, right, salubrious, salutary, satisfying, seemly, serviceable, suitable, tolerable, toward, wholesome, approving, benefic, benignant, commendatory, commending, favoring, unobjectionable |
| Antonyms: | inadequate, rotten, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | hale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strong and healthy |
| Synonyms: | able-bodied, blooming, fit, flourishing, healthy, hearty, husky, right, robust, sane, sound, stout, strapping, strong, trim, vigorous, well, wholesome, alive and kicking, fit as a fiddle, in fine fettle, in the pink, well-conditioned |
| Antonyms: | sick, unhealthy, weak |
| Main Entry: | hardy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strong, tough |
| Synonyms: | able, able-bodied, brawny, burly, capable, enduring, firm, fit, fresh, hale, hardened, healthy, hearty, hefty, indefatigable, lusty, mighty, muscular, powerful, resistant, robust, rugged, seasoned, solid, sound, stalwart, staunch, stout, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, unflagging, vigorous, well, acclimatized, in fine fettle, in good condition, in good shape, inured, physically fit |
| Antonyms: | feeble, infirm, invalid, sick, tender, unhealthy, weak |
| Main Entry: | hygienic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean |
| Synonyms: | aseptic, good, healthful, healthy, pure, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sterile, wholesome, disinfected, germ-free, salutiferous, uncontaminated, uninfected |
| Antonyms: | dirty, diseased, filthy, foul, unclean, unsanitary, contaminated, infected, unpure, unsterile |
| Main Entry: | normal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sane, rational |
| Synonyms: | all there, compos mentis, cool*, healthy, in good health, in one's right mind, lucid, reasonable, right, right-minded, sound, together, well-adjusted, whole, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, eccentric, insane, irrational, irregular, odd, unbalanced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nourishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthful |
| Synonyms: | beneficial, healthy, nutrient, nutritious, wholesome, alimentative, health-giving, nutrimental, nutritive |
| Antonyms: | bad, unhealthy, unwholesome |
| Main Entry: | red |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | color of blood; shade resembling such a color |
| Synonyms: | bloodshot, blooming, blush, brick, cardinal, carmine, cherry, crimson, flaming, florid, flushed, glowing, healthy, inflamed, maroon, pink, rose, roseate, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, rust, sanguine, bittersweet, burgundy, cerise, chestnut, claret, copper, coral, dahlia, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, infrared, magenta, puce, ruby, rufescent, russet, salmon, scarlet, titian, vermilion, wine |
| Main Entry: | ruddy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pinkish, blushing |
| Synonyms: | blooming, crimson, florid, flush, flushed, fresh, full-blooded, glowing, healthy, pink, red, roseate, rosy, rubicund, sanguine, blowsy, bronzed, red-complexioned, reddish, ruby, scarlet |
| Antonyms: | pale |
| Main Entry: | rugged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, strong |
| Synonyms: | able-bodied, athletic, brawny, energetic, forceful, hale, hardy, healthy, husky, indefatigable, lusty, muscular, robust, sturdy, tough, unflagging, vigorous, well-built |
| Antonyms: | small, tiny, weak |
| Main Entry: | safe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not dangerous |
| Synonyms: | certain, clear, competent, dependable, harmless, healthy, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, pure, reliable, secure, sound, tame, trustworthy, wholesome, checked, decontaminated, innoxious, neutralized, nonpoisonous, nontoxic, risk-free, riskless, uninjurious, unpolluted |
| Antonyms: | dangerous, harmful, poisonous, unsafe |
| Main Entry: | salubrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | health-giving |
| Synonyms: | beneficial, good, healthful, healthy, hygienic, invigorating, salutary, sanitary, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | unhealthy, unwholesome, insalubrious |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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