healthful
adjEtymology
From Middle English helthful, helþful, helþeful, equivalent to health + -ful.
- inherited from helthful
Definitions
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.
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.
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.
The neighborhood
- synonymhealthy
- synonymsalubrious
- synonymsalutary
- synonymwholesome
- neighborheal
- neighborhealth
- neighborhealthy
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for healthful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA