Wholesome

Quick meaning: Wholesome is an adjective meaning Promoting good physical health and well-being.

Meaning

Promoting good physical health and well-being.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• wholesomer
• wholesomest
• wholsom
• wholsome

Synonyms for wholesome

Depending on context, synonyms include healthy, healthful, salubrious, substantial, hearty, solid.

Antonyms for wholesome

Common opposites include unwholesome.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include salubrious, healthy, satisfying, hearty, substantial, nourishing.

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