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healthy
having good health:
• A good diet keeps you healthy. • They tested the drug on healthy volunteers.
well
used especially when describing or asking about how someone feels or looks:
• I don’t feel well. • How was James – did he look well?
fine
spoken used in a reply to a question about your health, or when talking about someone else’s health. Use fine only in replies, not in questions or statements:
• ‘Hi, Tom, how are you?’ ‘Fine, thanks.’ • She had a bad cold, but she’s fine now.
all right/OK
spoken not ill or injured. These expressions are very commonly used in everyday spoken English:
• You look pale – are you feeling all right? • He’s had an accident but he’s OK.
better
less ill than you were, or no longer ill:
• I’m feeling a lot better now. • Don’t come back to school until you’re better.
fit
healthy, especially because you exercise regularly:
• She keeps fit by cycling everywhere. • Police officers have to be physically fit and have good eyesight.
in (good) shape
healthy and fit:
• Jogging keeps me in pretty good shape.
robust
literary healthy and strong, and not likely to become ill:
• He had a robust constitution (= a strong and healthy body ) . • robust plants • a robust girl, wearing a thick woollen sweater
be/look a picture of health
to look very healthy:
• She looked a picture of health as she posed for the cameras.
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adj. not ill VERBS appear, be, be born, feel, look, seem | become | keep, remain, stay | make sb Working in the open air has made him very healthy. | keep sb Her good diet had kept her healthy. ADV. extremely, fantastically, really, very | perfectly He's a perfectly healthy child. | fairly, quite, reasonably | apparently The rare disorder strikes apparently healthy boys between the ages of five and twelve. | disgustingly (informal, ironic) You look disgustingly healthy! How do you manage it? | otherwise She looked pale, but otherwise healthy. | mentally, physically PHRASES fit and healthy producing good health VERBS be | consider sth a new diet which is considered much healthier than previous ones ADV. extremely, very We have a very healthy diet. | quite Their lifestyle is quite healthy. | generally working well VERBS be | remain ADV. extremely, very The economy is extremely healthy at the moment. | fairly, quite, reasonably, relatively | basically, fundamentally, generally | financially
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