wholesome
wholesome is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 38 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. Prov. xv.
- 2.I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased. Shak. A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained. Sir W. Scott.
- 3.Sound; healthy. [Obs.] Shak. -- Whole"some*ly, adv. -- Whole"some*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agree
- air
- assimilate
- benign
- bracing
- climate
- eudiometer
- fine
- for
- good
- harmless
- health
- healthful
- healthiness
- healthy
- hygeian
- hygiene
- hygienic
- innocent
- innocuous
- innoxious
- nutritious
- reinstate
- remedial
- restorative
- salubrious
- salubrity
- salutary
- salutiferous
- sanative
- sanitarian
- sanitarium
- sanitary
- tonic
- useful
- valetudinarian
- valetudinarianism
- with
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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