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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. conducive to good health of body or mind;
- Example: "a healthful climate"
- Example: "a healthful environment"
- Example: "healthful nutrition"
- Example: "healthful sleep"
- Example: "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"

2. free from filth and pathogens;
- Example: "sanitary conditions for preparing food"
- Example: "a sanitary washroom"
[syn: sanitary, healthful]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Healthful \Health"ful\ (-f[.u]l), a.
   1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole;
      sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful
      plant.
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   2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome;
      salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
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            The healthful Spirit of thy grace.    --Book of
                                                  Common Prayer.
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   3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or
      soundness; as, a healthful condition.
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            A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.]
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            Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests.
                                                  --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

healthful
    adj 1: conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful
           climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful
           nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively
           healthful exuberance" [ant: unhealthful]
    2: free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for
       preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom" [syn: sanitary,
       healthful] [ant: insanitary, unhealthful, unsanitary]