healthful Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective conducive to good health of body or mind
    • a healthful climate
    • a healthful environment
    • healthful nutrition
    • healthful sleep
    • Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance
  2. adjective free from filth and pathogens
    sanitary.
    • sanitary conditions for preparing food
    • a sanitary washroom

WordNet


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

Webster 1913