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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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"
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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