Wholesome

/ˈhoʊl.səm/ · adjective

Meaning

Promoting good physical health and well-being..

Definitions by Sense

1. Promoting good physical health and well-being.
2. Promoting moral and mental well-being.
3. Favorable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous.
4. Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.
5. Decent; innocuous; sweet.

Example Sentences

I prethee go, and get me ſome repaſt, I care not what, ſo it be holſome foode.

Though hard, my friends, yet wholesome are the truths, taught in affliction's school, whence the pure soul rises refined, and soars above the world.

A wholeſome tongue is a tree of life: but peruerſneſſe therein is a breach in the ſpirit.

Sometimes white Lyllies did their Leaves afford, With wholſom Polly-flow'rs, to mend his homely Board: […]

The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face.

There's something tragic, but almost pure Think I could love you, but I'm not sure There's something wholesome, there's something sweet Tucked in your eyes that I'd love to meet

Around the same time, “wholesome” memes of cute doggos and puppers rejuvenated social media feeds that seemed daily filled with fresh horrors.

The comment section on a recent post making fun of a “cute” and “wholesome” Doomer Girl meme is mixed.

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• more wholesome
• wholesomer
• most wholesome
• wholesomest
• holesom
• holesome
• wholsom
• wholsome

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