"healthier" in the adjective sense
1. healthy
having or indicating good health in body or mind free from infirmity or disease
"a rosy healthy baby"
"staying fit and healthy"
2. healthy
financially secure and functioning well
"a healthy economy"
3. healthy, salubrious, good for you
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"
4. healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound
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"
5. goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy
large in amount or extent or degree
"it cost a considerable amount"
"a goodly amount"
"received a hefty bonus"
"a respectable sum"
"a tidy sum of money"
"a sizable fortune"
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