'Healthful' definitions:
Definition of 'healthful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance" [ant: unhealthful]
adjective
Free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom" [syn: sanitary, healthful] [ant: insanitary, unhealthful, unsanitary]
Definition of 'Healthful'
From: GCIDE
- Healthful \Health"ful\ (-f[.u]l), a.
- 1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. [1913 Webster]
- The healthful Spirit of thy grace. --Book of Common Prayer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition. [1913 Webster]
- A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'healthful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advantageous,
- aiding,
- alive and kicking,
- alleviative,
- beneficial,
- benign,
- bracing,
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,
- chipper,
- constitutional,
- corrective,
- curative,
- enjoying health,
- eupeptic,
- fine,
- fit,
- fit and fine,
- full of beans,
- good,
- good for,
- health-enhancing,
- health-preserving,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- hygeian,
- hygienic,
- in condition,
- in fine fettle,
- in fine whack,
- in good case,
- in good health,
- in good shape,
- in health,
- in high feather,
- in mint condition,
- in shape,
- in the pink,
- invigorating,
- mitigative,
- profitable,
- refreshing,
- remedial,
- restorative,
- salubrious,
- salutary,
- sanative,
- sanitary,
- tonic,
- useful,
- wholesome
Words containing 'Healthful'
- Health,
- Healthfully,
- Healthfulness,
- Bill of health,
- Health lift,
- Health officer,
- To drink a health,
- To drink the health of,
- To drink to the health of,
- delicate health,
- good health,
- health care,
- health check,
- health club,
- health code,
- health facility,
- health food,
- health hazard,
- health insurance,
- health problem,
- health profession,
- health professional,
- health resort,
- health spa,
- ill health,
- mental health,
- A clean bill of health,
- Foul bill of health,
- clean bill of health,
- doctor of public health,
- health and human services,
- health care delivery,
- health care provider,
- health maintenance organization,
- ill-health,
- national institutes of health,
- primary health care,
- world health organization,
- department of health and human services,
- department of health education and welfare,
- occupational safety and health act,
- occupational safety and health administration,
- secretary of health and human services,
- secretary of health education and welfare,
- united states public health service