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Healthy vs Healthwise - What's the difference?

healthy | healthwise |

As an adjective healthy

is enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.

As an adverb healthwise is

with regard to health.

healthy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , 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= Ian Sample
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • Evincing health.
  • (label) Significant, hefty; beneficial.
  • Synonyms

    * (conducive to health) healthful

    Antonyms

    *

    Derived terms

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    healthwise

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • With regard to health
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 2, author=Ellie, title=Use, and you will be used, work=Toronto Star citation
  • , passage=Our deal was that I take care of him healthwise , after his hospital stay, but I went out instead, and we talked only occasionally. }}