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Definitions for: Healthful
[adj] conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"
[adj] free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom"
Webster (1913) Definition: Health"ful, a.
1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole;
sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful
plant.
2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome;
salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
The healthful Spirit of thy grace. --Book of
Common Prayer.
3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or
soundness; as, a healthful condition.
A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned.
--Macaulay.
4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.]
Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests.
--Shak.
Synonyms: alterative, anthelminthic, anthelmintic, antimicrobial, antimicrobic, beneficial, carminative, cathartic, curative, drugless, flatus-relieving, good, healing(p), helminthic, hygienic, hygienical, medicative, medicinal, parasiticidal, preventative, preventive, prophylactic, psychotherapeutic, recuperative, remedial, restorative, salutary, sanative, sanitary, therapeutic
Antonyms: insanitary, unhealthful, unsanitary
See Also: antiseptic, wholesome
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