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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being;
- Example: "wholesome attitude"
- Example: "wholesome appearance"
- Example: "wholesome food"

2. sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind;
- Example: "exercise develops wholesome appetites"
- Example: "a grin on his ugly wholesome face"


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.] [1913 Webster] 1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. [1913 Webster] Wholesome thirst and appetite. --Milton. [1913 Webster] From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. --A Smith. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. --Prov. xv. 4. [1913 Webster] I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased. --Shak. [1913 Webster] A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 3. Sound; healthy. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Whole"some*ly, adv. -- Whole"some*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
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"
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