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healthily

healthily

8 2.2
In a way that helps your body and mind stay well
  • adverb
  • /ˈhɛlθɪli/
translation icon : saludablemente
  • I hear parents say how they cook healthily for their kids, but not for themselves.
  • eat healthily

And these bats have evolved ways to live healthily with these viruses.

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Examples

  • The government also recently announced a 75 million marketing program to encourage children to exercise and eat healthily.

    Academic text (2018)
  • For years, I have attempted to eat healthily by finding 'safe' organic, grass-fed beef.

    Blog text (10)
  • We all know that eating healthily is good, but too often we forget why.

    Blog text (13)
  • Remember to eat healthily and make an appointment for next week.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • My mom's always tried to eat healthily, and she taught us how to eat healthily.

    Academic text (2014)
  • We may learn to meditate, to cook and eat healthily, and to exercise wisely.

    Academic text (1997)
  • By habit, some people simply enjoy eating healthily and exercising regularly and do so quite effortlessly.

    Academic text (2012)
  • By that yardstick, the populations of the EU-15 live healthily an average of two years longer than Americans do.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Of course I'm going to only eat the healthiest foods I can so my body can function as healthily and as prosperously as possible.

  • To live healthily, it's essential to eat balanced meals and engage in regular physical activity.

Synonyms

healthfully
vshealthily
3 3.8

In a way that helps you stay well

is specific about both body and mind rather than general wellbeing
nutritiously
vshealthily
1 3.4

In a way that gives the body the food it needs to stay healthy

focuses on overall physical and mental wellbeing not only nutrition
nutritively
vshealthily
6.0

In a way that gives the body the food it needs

emphasizes active promotion of body or mind wellbeing rather than relation
wholesomely
vshealthily
3.7

In a good and healthy way that helps people

is about promoting bodily or mental wellbeing rather than moral value

Antonyms

1 3.8

In a way that harms your body or mind

How Healthy

healthily
8 2.2
adequately
83 3.0
poorly
283 1.4
unhealthily
1 3.8

Surface Forms

healthily positive

Morphology

healthily = healthy (transparent) = health + ily

Standard adverb formation from the adjective 'healthy' using the adverbial suffix '-ly' (orthographically as '-ily'); meaning is directly derived from 'healthy'.

Etymology

Healthily comes from health, which originally meant 'wholeness' and is related to the common word whole, and the ending -ly means 'in a ... way'. So to act healthily is to act in a way that keeps you 'whole' or well.