Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Conducive to or indicative of good health or well-being; salutary: synonym: healthy.
- adjective Conducive to or promoting social or moral well-being, especially in reflecting conventional moral values.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Healthy; whole; sound in mind or body.
- Tending to promote health; favoring health; healthful; salubrious: as, wholesome air or diet; a wholesome climate.
- Contributing to health of mind or character; favorable mentally or morally; sound; salutary: as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths.
- Profitable; advantageous; hence, prosperous.
- Clean and neat.
- Synonyms Salutary, etc. (see
healthy ), nourishing, nutritious, invigorating, beneficial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.
- adjective Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound.
- adjective obsolete Sound; healthy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Promoting goodhealth andwell-being . - adjective
Promoting moral and mentalwell-being . - adjective
Sound andhealthy . - adjective Promoting
virtue or beingvirtuous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being
- adjective sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Thankfully, Davila seems committed to keeping the title wholesome and honest.
365 Reasons to Love Comics #316 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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His vigorous will seemed to dominate over the whole household; he would drag me out peremptorily for what he called wholesome exercise, which meant long, scrambling walks, which sent me home with tingling pulses and exuberant spirits, until the atmosphere of the sick room moderated and subdued them again.
Esther : a book for girls Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874
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That is what I call wholesome and healthy - so we are as we always were prior to this little blip.
Recent Activity 2010
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That is what I call wholesome and healthy - so we are as we always were prior to this little blip.
Recent Activity BabsNC 2010
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That is what I call wholesome and healthy - so we are as we always were prior to this little blip.
Recent Activity 2010
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Just good lookin ', wholesome gals I wished lived next door.
Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A. 2010
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Just good lookin ', wholesome gals I wished lived next door.
Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A. 2010
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They can be made dairy free, still be delicious, and contain wholesome goodness.
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The taste of the public has, of late years, been accustomed to very high stimulants: no plain wholesome food will go down; and every thing must be hashed and stewed with some "sauce piquante," which however delicious to one palate, may be very offensive and disgusting to another.
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When they eat they get together, three or four of them in wholesome fellowship.
Prolagus commented on the word wholesome
See Crappie (food).
September 14, 2008