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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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | salubrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | health-giving |
| Synonyms: | beneficial, good, healthful, healthy, hygienic, invigorating, salutary, sanitary, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | unhealthy, unwholesome, insalubrious |
| Main Entry: | sane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally sound; reasonable |
| Synonyms: | all there, balanced, both oars in water, commonsensical, compos mentis, discerning, fair-minded, fit, having all marbles, healthy, in one's right mind, intelligent, judicious, levelheaded, logical, lucid, moderate, normal, of sound mind, oriented, playing with full deck, prudent, rational, right, right-minded, sagacious, sage, sapient, self-possessed, sensible, sober, sound, steady, together*, well, wise |
| Antonyms: | crazy, insane, unreasonable, unsound, unstable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sanitary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean, germ-free |
| Synonyms: | healthful, healthy, hygienic, prophylactic, salubrious, sterile, unsullied, wholesome, purified, sanative, uncontaminated, uninfected, unpolluted |
| Antonyms: | dirty, diseased, unsanitary, polluted |
| Main Entry: | spry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active, vivacious |
| Synonyms: | agile, alert, brisk, energetic, fleet, healthy, lithe, nimble, prompt, quick, ready, robust, sound, spirited, sprightly, supple, vigorous, full of pep, in full swing, on the go, quick on the draw, rocking |
| Antonyms: | inactive, lethargic, old, unaware, unenergetic |
| Main Entry: | thriving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | successful |
| Synonyms: | blooming, cooking*, flourishing, growing, healthy, prolific, prosperous, rich, robust, rolling*, sitting pretty*, wealthy, advancing, arrived, booming, burgeoning, developing, doing well, going strong, have it made, have the wherewithal, home free, on top of heap, progressing, prospering, roaring |
| Antonyms: | failing, languishing, losing, declining |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vigorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | energetic, powerful |
| Synonyms: | active, athletic, brisk, dashing, driving, dynamic, effective, efficient, enterprising, exuberant, flourishing, forceful, forcible, hale, hardy, healthy, hearty, intense, lively, lusty, mettlesome, peppy, persuasive, potent, robust, rugged, snappy, sound, spanking, spirited, steamroller, strapping, strenuous, strong, sturdy, tough, vital, zealous, zippy*, ball of fire, bouncing, hard-driving, red-blooded*, strong as an ox, take-charge, take-over |
| Antonyms: | enervated, idle, impotent, inactive, lethargic, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | tough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sturdy, strong |
| Synonyms: | brawny, conditioned, dense, durable, fibrous, firm, fit, flinty, hard, hardened, hardy, healthy, indigestible, inflexible, leathery, lusty, mighty, resilient, resistant, rigid, robust, rugged, seasoned, sinewy, solid, stalwart, stiff, stout, strapping, tenacious, tight, unbreakable, unyielding, vigorous, cohesive, hard as nails, hard-bitten, molded, steeled, tough as nails, withstanding |
| Antonyms: | delicate, fragile, unstable, vulnerable, weak, wobbly |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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