wholesome
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/icons/point.icon HEALTHFUL, WHOLESOME, SALUBRIOUS, SALUTARY mean favorable to the health of mind or body.
HEALTHFUL implies a positive contribution to a healthy condition.
e.g. a healthful diet
WHOLESOME applies to what benefits, builds up, or sustains physically, mentally, or spiritually.
e.g. wholesome foods the movie is wholesome family entertainment
SALUBRIOUS applies chiefly to the helpful effects of climate or air.
e.g. cool and salubrious weather
SALUTARY describes something corrective or beneficially effective, even though it may in itself be unpleasant.
e.g. a salutary warning that resulted in increased production
/icons/point.icon HEALTHY, SOUND, WHOLESOME, ROBUST, HALE, WELL mean enjoying or indicative of good health.
HEALTHY implies full strength and vigor as well as freedom from signs of disease.
e.g. a healthy family
SOUND emphasizes the absence of disease, weakness, or malfunction.
e.g. a sound heart
WHOLESOME implies appearance and behavior indicating soundness and balance.
e.g. a face with a wholesome glow
ROBUST implies the opposite of all that is delicate or sickly.
e.g. a lively, robust little boy
HALE applies particularly to robustness in old age.
e.g. still hale at the age of eighty
WELL implies merely freedom from disease or illness.
e.g. she has never been a well person
adjective
conducive to or suggestive of good health and physical well-being:
〈食べ物などが〉健康によい
e.g. the food is plentiful and very wholesome.
conducive to or promoting moral well-being:
〈娯楽などが〉健全な, 有益な
e.g. good wholesome fun.
DERIVATIVES
wholesomely |ˈhōlsəmlē| adverb
wholesomeness |ˈhōlsəmnəs| noun
ORIGIN
Middle English: probably already in Old English (see whole, -some1).