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Healthy vs Deserving - What's the difference?

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Healthy is a related term of deserving.


As adjectives the difference between healthy and deserving

is that healthy is enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well while deserving is worthy of reward or praise; meritorious.

As a noun deserving is

desert, merit.

As a verb deserving is

.

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

    * *

    deserving

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • worthy of reward or praise; meritorious
  • the deserving poor
  • meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)
  • Antonyms

    * undeserving

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • desert, merit
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • A person of great deservings from the republic.

    Verb

    (head)