wholesome

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wholesome \Whole"some\, a. [Compar. {Wholesomer}; superl.
   {Wholesomest}.] [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G.
   heilsam, D. heilzaam.]
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   1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious;
      salutary.
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            Wholesome thirst and appetite.        --Milton.
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            From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable
            and wholesome variety of food.        --A Smith.
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   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.
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            A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. --Prov. xv. 4.
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            I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my
            wit's diseased.                       --Shak.
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            A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained. --Sir
                                                  W. Scott.
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   3. Sound; healthy. [Obs.] --Shak.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Whole"some*ly}, adv. --
      {Whole"some*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "wholesome":
      admissible, all, all in all, all there, altogether, balanced,
      beneficial, benign, bracing, bunkum, clearheaded, clearminded,
      cogent, completely, compos mentis, constitutional, credible,
      curing, entirely, exactly, fit, fully, good, good for, hale,
      healing, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy,
      healthy-minded, hygeian, hygienic, in toto, invigorating, just,
      justifiable, legitimate, logical, lucid, mentally sound, normal,
      of sound mind, perfectly, plausible, purely, quite, rational,
      reasonable, refreshing, remedial, restorative, right, roundly,
      salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, sane, sane-minded,
      sanitary, sensible, sound, sound-minded, thoroughly, together,
      tonic, totally, unimpaired, uninjurious, utterly, vulnerary, well,
      well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded, whole, wholly

    

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