Health vs Healthy - What's the difference?
health | healthy | Derived terms |
The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
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, title= A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
Physical condition.
(obsolete) Cure, remedy.
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*:And she myght have a dysshfulle of bloode of a maydyn and a clene virgyne in wylle and in worke, and a kynges doughter, that bloode sholde be her helth , for to anoynte her withall.
(countable) A toast to prosperity.
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Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, 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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, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Evincing health.
(label) Significant, hefty; beneficial.
Healthy is a derived term of health.
As a noun health
is the state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.As an adjective healthy is
enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.health
English
(wikipedia health)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
Derived terms
* healthiness * healthy * healthcare * bill of health * health food * health workerReferences
* *healthy
English
Adjective
(er)George Goodchild
Ian Sample
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.}}
