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Definition of Healthful
1. Adjective. Conducive to good health of body or mind. "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"
Also: Antiseptic, Wholesome
Derivative terms: Healthfulness
Antonyms: Unhealthful
2. Adjective. Free from filth and pathogens. "A sanitary washroom"
Similar to: Hygienic, Hygienical
Derivative terms: Healthfulness, Sanitariness
Antonyms: Unsanitary
Definition of Healthful
1. a. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
Definition of Healthful
1. Adjective. Beneficial to health of body or mind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Healthful
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Healthful
1. 1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. "The healthful Spirit of thy grace." (Book of Common Prayer) 3. Indicating, characterised by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition. "A mind . . . Healthful and so well-proportioned." (Macaulay) 4. Well-disposed; favorable. "Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Healthful
Literary usage of Healthful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Agriculturist (1847)
"Weak tea or coffee, with milk and sugar in it, is usually healthful drunk with
breakfast and supper. Half an hour to an hour's rest should always be taken ..."
2. A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at by Catharine Esther Beecher (1854)
"ON healthful DRINKS. ALTHOUGH intemperance in eating is probably the most prolific
cause of the diseases of mankind, intemperance in drink has produced more ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"Here is the gist of the prescription: healthful means “conducive to health” ...
The trouble is that healthy is used for the sense of healthful just given. ..."
4. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"The waters are less healthful than they thought: Or Dian'e fane, which near the
suburb lies, Where priests, for their promotion, fight a That maiden goddess ..."