Healthful

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Beneficial to bodily health..

Definitions by Sense

1. Beneficial to bodily health.
2. Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.
3. (archaic) Synonym of healthy (“evincing health”).

Example Sentences

Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students […]

The advertisement [published in 1856] concluded with the announcement that the excursion was being run "to afford the industrious classes the opportunity of enjoying the healthful and invigorating sea-breezes of Southport, and the luxury of sea-bathing, or the numerous objects of interest and amusement at Liverpool."

A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage.

She trusted it was a sign that his mind was recovering a more healthful state, that he was not obliged to refer to his imagination, and, by giving her an ideal existence, compel himself to love her as the representative of another; surely, if he could do so long without the real Margarita, and appear cheerful and happy as he used to do when in England, he might (now that death had really taken her, poor thing!) resign her entirely, and love his wife, […]

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.

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• healthfuller
• more healthful
• healthfullest
• most healthful
• healthfull

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