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healthful

[ helth-fuhl ]

adjective

  1. conducive to health; wholesome or salutary:

    a healthful diet.

  2. having or showing good health; healthy.


healthful

/ ˈhɛlθfʊl /

adjective

  1. a less common word for healthy healthy healthy


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Derived Forms

  • ˈhealthfulness, noun
  • ˈhealthfully, adverb

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Other Words From

  • healthful·ly adverb
  • healthful·ness noun
  • quasi-healthful adjective
  • quasi-healthful·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of healthful1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English helthful; health, -ful

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Synonym Study

See healthy.

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Example Sentences

This recipe is a spin on the open-faced version, but vegetable-centric and more healthful, with a fresh, contemporary feel.

Both weight gain and weight loss can be healthful or harmful.

Indulge your potato passion in a healthful way with lemon, feta and beansInstead of being deep-fried, these chips are baked with a light coating of olive oil and sprinkle of salt, which gives them a nutritional profile similar to roasted potatoes.

The result is a meal that brings a thrilling change of pace to the table, simple and healthful and brimming with flavor.

Served over rice with a fresh spray of cilantro leaves, it’s a healthful meal that has a sunny excitement to it, and if I close my eyes I swear I can hear the palm trees rustling in the breeze.

Efforts to offer more healthful fare have largely fallen flat.

It is sweet but not cloyingly so, and tastes eminently healthful.

Forget about modest changes or tweaks, or improving the quality of ingredients, or making them more healthful.

“There are very few snack bars on the market that are truly a healthful option,” Begun says.

Its authors speculate that kombucha “may be very healthful” in combating yeast infections, thrush, and other forms of candidiasis.

The climate of those mountains is cold rather than temperate, and less healthful than sickly.

That community which does not improve in the region where the means of healthful increase are afforded, is in an unhealthy state.

The porch would afford a healthful shelter in case it rained or the sun was too hot.

The healthful influence of his life and writings has done and is still doing good in his beloved country.

The golden curls lay like strands of silk on the pillow, the bright eyes were closed in healthful slumber.

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