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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Health·y a. [Compar. Healthier superl. Healthiest.]
 1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant.
    His mind was now in a firm and healthy state.   --Macaulay.
 2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.
 3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
 Syn: -- Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 healthier
      See healthy

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 healthier
      adj : improved in health or physical condition [syn: fitter]

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 healthy
      adj 1: having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from
             infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying
             fit and healthy" [ant: unhealthy]
      2: financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"
      3: promoting health; healthful; "a healthy diet"; "clean
         healthy air"; "plenty of healthy sleep"; "healthy and
         normal outlets for youthful energy"; "the salubrious
         mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis; "carrots are good for
         you" [syn: salubrious, good for you(p)]
      4: physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and
         fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and
         exercise" [syn: fit] [ant: unfit]
      5: exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism";
         "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" [syn: intelligent, levelheaded, sound]
      [also: healthiest, healthier]