healthful

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healthful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome;
        salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
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              The healthful Spirit of thy grace.    --Book of
                                                    Common Prayer.
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     3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or
        soundness; as, a healthful condition.
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              A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.]
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              Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests.
                                                    --Shak.
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healthful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  healthful
      adj 1: 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]
      2: free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for
         preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom" [syn: sanitary,
         healthful] [ant: insanitary, unhealthful, unsanitary]

healthful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "healthful":
     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