Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wholesome"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wholesome \Whole"some\, a. [Compar. {Wholesomer}; superl.
{Wholesomest}.] [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G.
heilsam, D. heilzaam.]
1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious;
salutary.

Wholesome thirst and appetite. --Milton.

From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable
and wholesome variety of food. --A Smith.

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.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. --Prov. xv. 4.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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"


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