Wholesome

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wholesome \Whole"some\, a. [Compar. {Wholesomer}; superl.
     {Wholesomest}.] [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G.
     heilsam, D. heilzaam.]
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     1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious;
        salutary.


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              Wholesome thirst and appetite.        --Milton.
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              From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable
              and wholesome variety of food.        --A Smith.
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     2. Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to
        morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good;
        salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome
        doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws.
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              A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. --Prov. xv. 4.
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              I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my
              wit's diseased.                       --Shak.
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              A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained. --Sir
                                                    W. Scott.
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     3. Sound; healthy. [Obs.] --Shak.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Whole"some*ly}, adv. --
        {Whole"some*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wholesome
       adj 1: conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral
              well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome
              appearance"; "wholesome food" [ant: {unwholesome}]
       2: sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind; "exercise
          develops wholesome appetites"; "a grin on his ugly
          wholesome face"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "wholesome":
     admissible, all, all in all, all there, altogether, balanced,
     beneficial, benign, bracing, bunkum, clearheaded, clearminded,
     cogent, completely, compos mentis, constitutional, credible,
     curing, entirely, exactly, fit, fully, good, good for, hale,
     healing, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy,
     healthy-minded, hygeian, hygienic, in toto, invigorating, just,
     justifiable, legitimate, logical, lucid, mentally sound, normal,
     of sound mind, perfectly, plausible, purely, quite, rational,
     reasonable, refreshing, remedial, restorative, right, roundly,
     salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, sane, sane-minded,
     sanitary, sensible, sound, sound-minded, thoroughly, together,
     tonic, totally, unimpaired, uninjurious, utterly, vulnerary, well,
     well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded, whole, wholly