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Healthier

adjective

1.

Improved in health or physical condition. Synonym: fitter.

Healthy

adjective

(compar. healthier; superl. healthiest)

1.

Having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease. "Staying fit and healthy"

2.

Financially secure and functioning well.

3.

Promoting health; healthful. Synonyms: good for you, salubrious. "Clean healthy air" , "Plenty of healthy sleep" , "Healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy" , "The salubrious mountain air and water" , "Carrots are good for you"

4.

Exercising or showing good judgment. Synonyms: intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded, sound. "A healthy fear of rattlesnakes" , "The healthy attitude of French laws" , "Healthy relations between labor and management" , "An intelligent solution" , "A sound approach to the problem" , "Sound advice" , "No sound explanation for his decision"

5.

Large in amount or extent or degree. Synonyms: goodish, goodly, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy. "A goodly amount" , "Received a hefty bonus" , "A respectable sum" , "A tidy sum of money" , "A sizable fortune"

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"Healthier" Quotes from Famous Books

... he knew no better way for a young man to form his mind than by frequenting the society of men of conflicting views and equal capacity. "Nothing," said he, "is more injurious to the growth of character than to be secluded from argument and opposition; as nothing is healthier than to be obliged to find good reasons for one's beliefs on pain of ...

— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton

... Suppose now, as a punishment for my sin, I was to die and leave my babes to be despised, neglected, and wished dead by them as had the care of 'em! How would I feel? although my children are so much healthier and stronger, and better able to bear neglect than ever Ishmael was, poor, poor fellow! It is a wonder he ever lived through it all. Surely, only God sustained him, for he was bereft of nearly all human ...

— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... in vogue, there were a few side streams which turned away from the main current of the great poet schools, from the unnaturalness and bombast affected especially by the Silesians. As Winter says, even the satirists Moscherosch and Logau were indirectly of use in paving the way for a healthier condition, through their severe criticisms of the corruption of the language; and Logau's one epigram on May, 'This month is a kiss which heaven gives to earth, that she may be a bride now, a mother by-and-by,' outweighs all Harsdoerfer's and ...

— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese

... panther and the wolf still range, and where the speckled trout sport in the crystal waters. I had made up my mind to throw off the cares and anxieties of business, and visit that great institution spread out all around us by the Almighty, to make men healthier, wiser, better. I had resolved to go into the country. That was ...

— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond

... A.H. Thompson, in his Cambridge and its Colleges, suggests that the unhealthy dampness of the fens would have made it very desirable that the less robust of the youths who were training for the cloistered life in the abbeys of East Anglia should be transferred to the drier and healthier town, where the learning of France was available among the many different religious Orders ...

— Beautiful Britain--Cambridge • Gordon Home

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