Healthier vs Heathier - What's the difference?
healthier | heathier |
(healthy)
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=
, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Evincing health.
(label) Significant, hefty; beneficial.
(heathy)
Resembling heath
* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Boswell, title=Life Of Johnson, Volume 5, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The hills here, and indeed all the heathy grounds in general, abound with the sweet-smelling plant which the Highlanders call gaul , and (I think) with dwarf juniper in many places. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1884, author=A C and F T Gregory, title=Journals of Australian Explorations, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The country consists of elevated sandy downs covered with heathy bushes and a few small banksia trees, it being only on the alluvial flats of the river that there is any grass or good soil. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1894, author=John Muir, title=The Mountains of California, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Here make ground for a meadow; there, for a garden and grove, making it smooth and fine for small daisies and violets and beds of heathy bryanthus, spicing it well with crystals, garnet feldspar, and zircon." }}
As adjectives the difference between healthier and heathier
is that healthier is comparative of healthy while heathier is comparative of heathy.healthier
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(head)healthy
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(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.}}
Synonyms
* (conducive to health) healthfulAntonyms
*Derived terms
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* * 1000 English basic wordsheathier
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(head)heathy
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