healthful

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Adjective

healthful (comparative healthfuller, superlative healthfullest)

1. Beneficial to bodily health.
   • 1906, Princeton Alumni Weekly (volume 7, page 210)

     Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students […]

2. Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.
   • 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society 2008, p. 30:

     As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.

Synonyms

• healthy
• salubrious
• salutary
• wholesome

Related terms

• heal
• health
• healthy

Translations

• French: sain
• German: gesund
• Portuguese: saudável
• Russian: здоро́вый
• Spanish: saludable, sano, salutífero

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