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Is healthfully really a word..? I would have tried to phrase it 'eating healthily' off the top of my head.
by CoryG89 13y ago
Is healthfully really a word..? I would have tried to phrase it 'eating healthily' off the top of my head.
- Moto7451 13y agoYes, it's the adverb of healthful. Healthily is the adverb of healthy. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/healthful http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/healthful http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/healthy http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/healthy Kinda/sorta like the difference between affect and effect.
- shellac 13y ago'Healthfully' (as in healthful) or 'healthily' (as in healthy) are both fine according to the OED. Personally I've never heard of 'healthful'. Looking around Fowler's Modern English Usage suggests preference for 'healthful' is a U.S. thing (an even there it seems people are unaware of it, judging by the comments at a U.S. dictionary site). Fowler's also notes 'healthful' is considered 'old-fashioned and literary' or 'formal' by some teaching dictionaries.