Strong vs. Healthy — What's the Difference?

Having the power to move heavy weights or perform other physically demanding tasks

In a good physical or mental condition; in good health

Able to withstand force, pressure, or wear

Possessing good health

Very intense

Conducive to good health; healthful

Used after a number to indicate the size of a group

Indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind

Denoting a class of verbs in Germanic languages that form the past tense and past participle by a change of vowel within the stem rather than by addition of a suffix (e.g. swim, swam, swum).

Sizable; considerable

Relating to or denoting the strongest of the known kinds of force between particles, which acts between nucleons and other hadrons when closer than about 10⁻¹³ cm (so binding protons in a nucleus despite the repulsion due to their charge), and which conserves strangeness, parity, and isospin.

So as to promote one's health; in a healthy way

Physically powerful; capable of exerting great physical force.

Enjoying good health; well; free from disease or disorder.

Marked by great physical power

Conducive to health.

In good or sound health; robust

Evincing health.

Economically or financially sound or thriving

(figuratively) Significant, hefty; beneficial.

Having force of character, will, morality, or intelligence

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant.

Having or showing ability or achievement in a specified field

Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.

Capable of the effective exercise of authority

Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.

Capable of withstanding force or wear; solid, tough, or firm

Having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease;

Having great binding strength

Financially secure and functioning well;

Not easily captured or defeated

Promoting health; healthful;

Not easily upset; resistant to harmful or unpleasant influences

Physically and mentally sound or healthy;

Having force or rapidity of motion

Exercising or showing good judgment;

Persuasive, effective, and cogent

Forceful and pointed; emphatic

Forthright and explicit, often offensively so

Extreme; drastic

Having force of conviction or feeling; uncompromising

Intense in degree or quality

Having an intense or offensive effect on the senses

Clear and loud

Readily noticeable; remarkable

Readily detected or received

Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient

Containing a considerable percentage of alcohol

Powerfully effective

Of or relating to a color having a high degree of saturation.

Having a specified number of units or members

Marked by steady or rising prices

Of or relating to those verbs in Germanic languages that form their past tense by a change in stem vowel, and their past participles by a change in stem vowel and sometimes by adding the suffix -(e)n, as sing, sang, sung or tear, tore, torn.

Of or relating to the inflection of nouns or adjectives in Germanic languages with endings that historically did not contain a suffix with an n.

Stressed or accented in pronunciation or poetic meter. Used of a word or syllable.

In a strong, powerful, or vigorous manner; forcefully

Capable of producing great physical force.

Capable of withstanding great physical force.

(of water, wind, etc.) Having a lot of power.

Determined; unyielding.

Highly stimulating to the senses.

Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.

Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.

(specifically) Having a high alcoholic content.

(grammar) Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.

(chemistry) That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.

(military) Not easily subdued or taken.

Having wealth or resources.

Impressive, good.

Having a specified number of people or units.

(of a disease or symptom) Severe; very bad or intense.

Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)

(of an argument) Convincing.

In a strong manner.

Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.

Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.

Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.

Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.

Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.

Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.

Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.

Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.

Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.

Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.

Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.

Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.

Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.

Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.

Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.

Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.

Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.

Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.

Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.

Having strength or power greater than average or expected;

Used of syllables or musical beats

Not faint or feeble;

Having or wielding force or authority;

Having a strong physiological or chemical effect;

Able to withstand attack;

Of good quality and condition; solidly built;

Of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection;

Having a high alcoholic content;

Freshly made or left;

Strong and sure;