Healthful
['helθfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['hɛlθfl]
Definition
(adj.) conducive to good health of body or mind; 'a healthful climate'; 'a healthful environment'; 'healthful nutrition'; 'healthful sleep'; 'Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance' .
Edited by Edith--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
(a.) Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
(a.) Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition.
(a.) Well-disposed; favorable.
Checker: Nicole
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Wholesome, salubrious, salutary, healthy, health-giving.
Edited by Georgina
Examples
- I mean as regarding Caliphronas; he is physically perfect, thoroughly healthful, and yet you can hardly call him intellectual. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Did God create man, merely in the end to become dead earth in the midst of healthful vegetating nature? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Open fireplaces are very healthful because the air which is driven out is impure, while the air which rushes in is fresh and brings oxygen to the human being. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Many, however, are not willing to take the care necessary for healthful living, because it would force them to sacrifice some of the hours of pleasure. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The air that would be healthful to the earth, the water that would enrich it, the heat that would ripen it, tear it when caged up. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- On all points but one you are a man, frank, healthful, right-thinkingclear-sighted: on this exceptional point you are but a slave. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Her face was round and rosy, with a healthful downy softness, suggestive of a ripe peach. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They have broken down much of the illogical prejudice against the games, and have shown the public-room keepers that billiards can flourish under good and healthful conditions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They had risen before him fast, in the healthful exercise and the pleasant road. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I can say to you of the healthful music of my pulse what Hamlet said of his. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Thus I enjoy the pleasures of the chase, and derive great benefit from the healthful exercise. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The first and greatest problem attempted by the United States was to make the Canal Zone healthful. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the summer, cool washed air is handled in the same way, thus providing a clean, healthful atmosphere the year around. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Georgina