Thesaurus: wholesome

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1. superl. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.
2. superl. 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.
3. superl. Sound; healthy.
4. adj. conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being
5. adj. sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind
6. 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.
7. j:100 a. conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being s. sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind