ZebraWords.com - The Definition of 'Healthful', Synonyms of 'Healthful' & More on 'Healthful'

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

healthful
    adj 1: conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful
           climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful
           nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively
           healthful exuberance" [ant: unhealthful]
    2: free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for
       preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom" [syn: sanitary,
       healthful] [ant: insanitary, unhealthful, unsanitary]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Healthful \Health"ful\ (-f[.u]l), a.
   1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole;
      sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful
      plant.
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   2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome;
      salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
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            The healthful Spirit of thy grace.    --Book of
                                                  Common Prayer.
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   3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or
      soundness; as, a healthful condition.
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            A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.]
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            Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests.
                                                  --Shak.
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Thesaurus Results for healthful:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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