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HEALTHILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does healthily mean?
• HEALTHILY (adverb)
The adverb HEALTHILY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: HEALTHILY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a levelheaded manner
Context example:
the answers were healthily individual
Pertainym:
healthy (exercising or showing good judgment)
Context examples
"If you're eating really badly then probiotics might be helpful. But if you're already eating healthily, they may not be that beneficial," says Professor Margaret Morris, Head of Pharmacology at UNSW.
(Probiotics May Not Always Be A Silver Bullet for Better Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Five years after Jo's wedding, one of these fruitful festivals occurred, a mellow October day, when the air was full of an exhilarating freshness which made the spirits rise and the blood dance healthily in the veins.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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