0 (especially of old people) healthy and strong: --
Her grandfather was hale and hearty, walking five miles each day before breakfast.
In either case, one would expect that the elderly or infirm person can often do less than an ordinary hale and hearty man or woman.
They are also in general use among the hale and hearty.
Two years later, that rent collector returned hale and hearty.
We bid her happy birthday, and we wish her many more hale and hearty years to come.
All the people we saw were hale and hearty.
It did not do him any harm because he is still hale and hearty, although retired, and well into his seventies.
Many pensioners aged 60 or 65 are hale and hearty and keen to carry on working.
Lastly, there are the hale and hearty living at home with their families, or it may be living alone or boarded out.
