Healthiness — Meaning, Definition & Synonyms

Related Entry: Healthy (adjective)

Healthy is a different word from Healthiness. The synonyms below are for healthy, not for healthiness.

1. enjoying health and vigor

   "always a hard worker, Grandma has remained healthy into her 80s"

   similar: able-bodied, bouncing, fit, hale, hearty, robust, sound, well, well-conditioned, whole, wholesome, in fine fettle, in shape, in the pink
   related: hard, hardy, iron, lusty, rugged, stalwart, strong, sturdy, tough, ambulatory, nondisabled, uncrippled, active, agile, chipper, lively, sprightful, sprightly, spry, vigorous, vital, blooming, clean-cut, flourishing, flush, prospering, thriving, all right, good, right
   opposite: ailing, diseased, ill, sick, unfit, unhealthy, unsound, unwell
   near: decrepit, enfeebled, feeble, infirm, run-down, sickened, sickly, weak, weakened, weakly, worn-out, debilitated, differently abled, disabled, incapacitated, delicate, fragile, frail, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, malnourished, undernourished, afflicted, troubled, bad, poorly

2. beneficial to the health of body or mind

   "the air in here isn't healthy"

   "ads that promote healthy eating habits"

   similar: good, healthful, medicinal, restorative, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, sanative, tonic, wholesome
   related: alleviative, corrective, curative, recuperative, refreshing, rehabilitative, rejuvenating, rejuvenescent, remedial, advantageous, useful, antiseptic, aseptic, clean, hygienic, sanitary, nourishing, nutritional, nutritious, nonpoisonous, nontoxic
   opposite: insalubrious, noxious, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome
   near: damaging, deleterious, harmful, injurious, pernicious, infectious, poisonous, sickening, toxic, insanitary, unhygienic, unsanitary

3. sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention

   "a healthy turnout of volunteers to plant trees on Arbor Day"

   similar: biggish, considerable, good, goodly, handsome, largish, major, respectable, significant, sizable, substantial, substantive, tidy
   related: big, bulky, hefty, hulking, outsize, oversize, voluminous, astronomical, bumper, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gigantic, great, herculean, huge, immense, jumbo, king-size, mammoth, massive, monstrous, monumental, prodigious, titanic, tremendous, whopping
   opposite: inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, insubstantial, negligible, nominal
   near: measly, minute, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, puny, trifling, trivial, unimportant, marginal, meager, slight, little, small, tiny, undersized, bitty, diminutive, miniature, pint-size, pocket, pocket-size, pygmy, smallish

4. marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically

   "coming out of a prolonged recession, the restaurant business seemed to be healthy again"

   similar: booming, boomy, flourishing, golden, halcyon, lush, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, successful, thriving
   related: affluent, moneyed, opulent, rich, substantial, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, comfortable
   opposite: depressed, unprosperous, unsuccessful
   near: declining, dying, failing, floundering, languishing, struggling, bankrupt, bankrupted, insolvent