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Optimistic vs Healthy - What's the difference?

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Optimistic is a related term of healthy.


As adjectives the difference between optimistic and healthy

is that optimistic is expecting the best in all possible ways while healthy is enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.

optimistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Expecting the best in all possible ways.
  • in an optimistic mood
    optimistic plans
    took an optimistic view

    Antonyms

    * pessimistic

    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

    * *