healthful

adj

Etymology

From Middle English helthful, helþful, helþeful, equivalent to health + -ful.

  1. inherited from helthful

Definitions

  1. Beneficial to bodily health.

    • Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students […]
    • A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage.
  2. Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity

    Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.

    • As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.
  3. Synonym of healthy (“evincing health”).

    • His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA