HALE AND HEARTY meaning: Robustly healthy and energetically vigorous - OneLook

Usually means: Robustly healthy and energetically vigorous.

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hale and hearty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
hale and hearty: Wiktionary
hale and hearty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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hale and hearty: Idioms

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hale and hearty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hale and hearty)

▸ adjective: (idiomatic) In a state of robust good health.
▸ adjective: (idiomatic, nutrition) Conducive to robust good health.

Similar:

halesome, healthy as a horse, healthsome, hearty, healthful, right as rain, good, red-blooded, sound as a barrel, healthy, more...

Opposite:

unwell, sickly, ailing, frail, weak

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Similar:

halesome, healthy as a horse, healthsome, hearty, healthful, right as rain, good, red-blooded, sound as a barrel, healthy, more...

Opposite:

unwell, sickly, ailing, frail, weak

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