healthful
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healthful
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From Middle English helthful, helþful, helþeful, equivalent to health + -ful.
adjective healthfuller · more healthful · healthfullest · most healthful · healthfull
- Beneficial to bodily health. Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students […]
- Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary. 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 appea
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Synonym of healthy (“evincing health”).
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.
Similar: healthy
Similar: healthy, salubrious, salutary, wholesome
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adjective
Similar: healthy, salubrious, salutary, wholesome
Translations
Talk about this word "healthful." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/healthful. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. healthful. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/healthful "healthful." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/healthful.Cite this
@misc{healthful_2026,
title = {healthful},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/healthful},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
