✅ Healthy describes having good physical and mental health or being physically and mentally well (I was finally healthy after a period of illness).

✅ Hale describes being free of any illness and having good, robust health (I took several hale helpers with me to shovel all the snow).

✅ Healthy emphasizes having good health, whereas hale emphasizes having resilience regarding your physical health.

✅ Hale is a less common word and is usually used in the phrase hale and hearty.

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✅ Cowardly describes lacking courage and not being brave (The cowardly cat hid under the bed).

✅ Yellow-bellied is an informal way of saying that someone lacks courage (The yellow-bellied fool has betrayed us!).

✅ Cowardly and yellow-bellied both have pretty negative connotations. Using cowardly or yellow-bellied suggests that you feel contempt or scorn for the person described.

✅ Yellow-bellied is an old-fashioned slang term and is not usually used seriously now.

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✅ Immature describes a person who is childish or who hasn’t yet fully developed emotionally. It also describes plants and fruits which aren’t fully mature or ripe (The trees are immature now, but in a few decades this area will have grown into a lovely wood).

✅ Green describes fruits which are underripe and people who are inexperienced (The berries were too green to eat).

✅ Immature and green both describe people and things that haven’t reached their full development (She’s a little too immature; The new worker shows promise, even if he is a little green).

✅ When referring to people, green is a more informal, but also in some situations less judgmental, word than immature. When referring to fruits, green is the usual word and immature is more formal.

Your vocabulary won’t be considered green with the help of these synonyms!