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English

Adjective

promoting good moral, mental and physical health and well-being
sound and healthy
promoting virtue or being virtuous

Antonyms

unwholesome

Translations

Finnish: terveellinen

Finnish: terve

Derived terms

References

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Wholesome \Whole"some\, a. [Compar. Wholesomer; superl.
Wholesomest.] [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G.
heilsam, D. heilzaam.]
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1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious;
salutary.
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Wholesome thirst and appetite. --Milton.
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From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable
and wholesome variety of food. --A Smith.
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2. Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to
morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good;
salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome
doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws.
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A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. --Prov. xv. 4.
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I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my
wit's diseased. --Shak.
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A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained. --Sir
W. Scott.
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3. Sound; healthy. [Obs.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster] -- Whole"some*ly, adv. --
Whole"some*ness, n.
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WordNet wholesome
adj 1: conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral
well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome
appearance"; "wholesome food" [ant: unwholesome]
2: sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind; "exercise
develops wholesome appetites"; "a grin on his ugly
wholesome face"

Moby Dictionary
admissible , all , all in all , all there , altogether , balanced ,
beneficial , benign , bracing , bunkum , clearheaded , clearminded ,
cogent , completely , compos mentis , constitutional , credible ,
curing , entirely , exactly , fit , fully , good , good for , hale ,
healing , health-enhancing , health-preserving , healthful , healthy ,
healthy-minded , hygeian , hygienic , in toto , invigorating , just ,
justifiable , legitimate , logical , lucid , mentally sound , normal ,
of sound mind , perfectly , plausible , purely , quite , rational ,
reasonable , refreshing , remedial , restorative , right , roundly ,
salubrious , salutary , sanative , sanatory , sane , sane-minded ,
sanitary , sensible , sound , sound-minded , thoroughly , together ,
tonic , totally , unimpaired , uninjurious , utterly , vulnerary , well ,
well-argued , well-founded , well-grounded , whole , wholly