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healthful

conducive to health; wholesome: We serve only healthful food.

Not to be confused with:

healthy – enjoying good health; hearty; robust: The children are all healthy.

health·ful

(hĕlth′fəl)

adj.

1. Conducive to good health; salutary.

2. Healthy. See Usage Note at healthy.

health′ful·ly adv.

health′ful·ness n.

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healthful

(ˈhɛlθfʊl)

adj

a less common word for healthy¹, healthy², healthy³

ˈhealthfully adv

ˈhealthfulness n

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health•ful

(ˈhɛlθ fəl)

adj.

1. conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.

2. healthy.

[1350–1400]

health′ful•ly, adv.

health′ful•ness, n.

syn: See healthy.

healthy, healthful - Healthy is a positive descriptive of a person's (or personified thing's) physical state; healthful is used of something that favorably affects or promotes that state.

healthful

adjective healthy, beneficial, good for you, bracing, nourishing, wholesome, nutritious, invigorating, salutary, salubrious, health-giving Does the college cafeteria provide a healthful diet?

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healthful

adjective

1. Promoting good health:

healthsome, healthy, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, wholesome.

2. Having good health:

fit, hale, healthy, hearty, right, sound, well, whole, wholesome.

Idioms: fit as a fiddle, hale and hearty, in fine fettle.

Translations

salubre sano

healthful

[ˈhelθfʊl] health-giving [ˈhelθˌgɪvɪŋ] ADJ → sano, saludable

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healthful

[ˈhɛlθfʊl] adj (= healthy) → sain(e)health hazard n → risque m pour la santé

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

healthful

, healthgiving

adj → gesund

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

healthful

adj saludable

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-- We notice with pleasure the arrival of visitors to this healthful and far-famed watering-place earlier in the season than usual during the present year.

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The life there was healthful and athletic, but too juvenile.

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There are these four things which we should be particularly desirous of in the position of the city with respect to itself: in the first place, health is to be consulted as the first thing necessary: now a city which fronts the east and receives the winds which blow from thence is esteemed most healthful; next to this that which has a northern position is to be preferred, as best in winter.

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After the birth of little Harry, however, she had gradually become tranquillized and settled; and every bleeding tie and throbbing nerve, once more entwined with that little life, seemed to become sound and healthful, and Eliza was a happy woman up to the time that her husband was rudely torn from his kind employer, and brought under the iron sway of his legal owner.

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That province of the kingdom of Damot, which I was assigned to by my superior, is called Ligonus, and is perhaps one of the most beautiful and agreeable places in the world; the air is healthful and temperate, and all the mountains, which are not very high, shaded with cedars.

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Gardiner's door, Jane was at a drawing-room window watching their arrival; when they entered the passage she was there to welcome them, and Elizabeth, looking earnestly in her face, was pleased to see it healthful and lovely as ever.

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The love of trade is a reason why the literature of America is to remain for ever unprotected 'For we are a trading people, and don't care for poetry:' though we DO, by the way, profess to be very proud of our poets: while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholesome fancies, must fade before the stern utilitarian joys of trade.

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So, though in the clear air of day, suspended against a blue-veined neck, the pure-watered diamond drop will healthful glow; yet, when the cunning jeweller would show you the diamond in its most impressive lustre, he lays it against a gloomy ground, and then lights it up, not by the sun, but by some unnatural gases.

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She was glowing from her morning toilet as only healthful youth can glow: there was gem-like brightness on her coiled hair and in her hazel eyes; there was warm red life in her lips; her throat had a breathing whiteness above the differing white of the fur which itself seemed to wind about her neck and cling down her blue-gray pelisse with a tenderness gathered from her own, a sentient commingled innocence which kept its loveliness against the crystalline purity of the outdoor snow.

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"Valentine," he answered, "during my long watch over you, all I have observed has been what people visited you, what nourishment was prepared, and what beverage was served; then, when the latter appeared dangerous to me, I entered, as I have now done, and substituted, in the place of the poison, a healthful draught; which, instead of producing the death intended, caused life to circulate in your veins."

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The feeling, from being morbid, was changed to a healthful and active desire to emulate the character, the condition, and, peradventure, the wealth of their ancestors also.

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The second fruit of friendship, is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections.

Adj.	1.	healthful - conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance" antiseptic - thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities" wholesome - conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food" unhealthful - detrimental to good health; "unhealthful air pollution"; "unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint"
	2.	healthful - free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom" sanitary