Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a healthy condition; so as to be healthy or to promote health.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a healthy manner.

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  • adverb In a healthy manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a levelheaded manner

Etymologies

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healthy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • 7. Clinics around the world that help poor women control the size of their families, and that give medical care to women who want to carry their babies to term healthily, should receive assistance.

    President Obama’s First 100 Days and Abortion at Ray Fowler .org 2009

  • S. O'BRIEN: But not necessarily eating healthily, which is what you want to change.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2006 2006

  • So to the degree that the community and voluntary world enables this seriousness, it is a necessary part of social health - not a substitute for statutory provision, nor an optional, hobby-like concern, but a local and tangible foundation for what I elsewhere called a healthily argumentative democracy.

    The Nicholas Hinton Lecture, given at the AGM of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations 2004

  • Corrupt mind never understood word healthily, and even as seemly words profit not depraved minds, so those which are not altogether seemly avail not to contaminate the well-disposed, any more than mire can sully the rays of the sun or earthly foulness the beauties of the sky.

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • The developer expects both those markets to grow "healthily" this year, buoyed by the continued improvement of the Hong Kong and Chinese economies, Managing Director Henry Cheng said in a statement.

    New World Profit Surges 83% Joyce Li 2010

  • The developer expects both those markets to grow "healthily" this year, buoyed by the continued improvement of the Hong Kong and Chinese economies, Managing Director Henry Cheng said in a statement.

    New World Profit Surges 83% Joyce Li 2010

  • The developer expects both those markets to grow "healthily" this year, buoyed by the continued improvement of the Hong Kong and Chinese economies, Managing Director Henry Cheng said in a statement.

    New World Profit Surges 83% Joyce Li 2010

  • No matter where you turn, it is hard to avoid the preoccupation and apparent guilt our culture seems to feel is necessary to eat 'healthily'.

    Donna Fish: Take the Fight Out of Food 2008

  • Yet here she is telling us mortals that we should be doing it the good old-fashioned way by eating 'healthily'.

    unknown title 2008

  • - Do you feel at peace with yourself and in total control when you eat healthily?

    Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » When Healthy Eating Becomes an Obsession 2009

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