Collocations for "healthy"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "healthy" in context.
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healthy
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- a healthy [person, baby, patient]
- healthy [food]
- healthy [eating, living, food]
- eat a healthy [diet, meal]
- eat healthy food
- live a healthy [life, lifestyle]
- (choose) the healthy option
- [be, maintain, stay at] a healthy weight
- healthy [hair, skin, looks, teeth, bones]
- her [skin, hair] has a healthy glow
- a healthy [company, business, organization, cash balance]
- a healthy [amount, quantity, mix] (of)
- a healthier [alternative, condition, way, shape, lifestyle
- a healthy [development, environment, relationship]
- a healthy [increase, decrease]
- a healthy dose of [reality, failure]
- a healthy [interest in, love for]
- was born weighing a healthy [7 pounds]
- [has, with] a healthy [disregard, disrespect] for [authority, the rules]
- [really, especially, very, not] healthy (for you)
- [fruit, milk, spinach] is healthy for you
- [considered, seen as, seemingly] healthy
- [supplements, tips, exercises] for healthy living
- healthy and [productive, tasty, effective, happy, reliable]
- [looked, appeared] so healthy
- [be, stay] healthy and [happy, active]
- a happy and healthy [life, New Year]
- not healthy to [keep, dwell] (on)
- it's (just) not healthy (to)
- [that, this, it] can't be healthy
- (try to) eat healthy
'healthy' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
alive
- aspect
- attitude
- baby
- blend
- body
- breakfast
- cell
- cellar
- cereal
- coat
- complexion
- conducive
- constitute
- cooking
- delicious
- diet
- donor
- eat
- eating
- economy
- enjoyment
- entrepreneur
- essential
- exercise
- fat
- filling
- food
- gloss
- graft
- gum
- income
- ingredient
- lead
- leaf
- lean
- life
- lifestyle
- live
- look
- lung
- maintain
- margin
- marriage
- meal
- mind
- normal
- offspring
- part
- plant