Healthful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Healthful is an adjective meaning Beneficial to bodily health.
Meaning
Beneficial to bodily health.
More Meanings
- Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.
- (archaic) Synonym of healthy (“evincing health”).
Example Sentences
Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students […]
A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage.
As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.
His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.
Word Forms
- healthfuller
- healthfullest
- healthfull
Synonyms for healthful
Depending on context, synonyms include healthy, salubrious, salutary, wholesome, good, beneficial.
Antonyms for healthful
Common opposites include unhealthful, unsanitary, insanitary.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include beneficial, good, salutary, curative, preventative, sanative.
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