Durable vs Healthy - What's the difference?
durable | healthy | Related terms |
(economics) A durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
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Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.
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, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy -looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
Conducive to health.
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(label) Significant, hefty; beneficial.
As adjectives the difference between durable and healthy
is that durable is able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring while healthy is enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.As a noun durable
is a durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.durable
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Synonyms
* permanentAntonyms
* weak * vulnerable * transitoryNoun
(en noun)Antonyms
* nondurable ----healthy
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Adjective
(er)George Goodchild
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Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
