Word Meanings - HEALTHFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: HEALTHFUL
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. Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HEALTHFUL)
- Healthy
- Vigorous
- sound
- robust
- strong
- hale
- salubrious
- wholesome
- hearty
- healthful
- Wholesome
- Healthful
- salutary
- salutiferous
- beneficial
- nutritious
- healing
Related words: (words related to HEALTHFUL)
- BENEFICIAL
Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which - HEALTHFULLY
In health; wholesomely. - STRONGYLOID
Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n. - VIGOROUS
1. Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant. Famed for his valor, young, At sea successful, vigorous and strong. Waller. 2. Exhibiting strength, either - HEALTHLESS
1. Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor. 2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome. - HEALTHFUL
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 - SOUNDLY
In a sound manner. - STRONGYLID
Strongyloid. - HEALING
Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. Here healing dews and balms abound. Keble. - SOUNDNESS
The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude. - HEALTHFULNESS
The state of being healthful. - HEARTYHALE
Good for the heart. - HEALD
A heddle. Ure. - HEALTHSOME
Wholesome; salubrious. "Healthsome air." Shak. - STRONG
strong; akin to D. & G. streng strict, rigorous, OHG. strengi strong, brave, harsh, Icel. strangr strong, severe, Dan. streng, Sw. sträng 1. Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily - HEALTHWARD
In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency. - SOUNDING BALLOON
An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes. - SOUND-BOARD
A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton. - STRONGLY
In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly. - SOUND
1. To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn. A bagpipe well could he play and soun . Chaucer. 2. To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument. 3. To order, direct, indicate, - SELF-HEAL
A blue-flowered labiate plant ; the healall. - HIGH-SOUNDING
Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles. - RESOUND
resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame - HEAL
To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. - SOUNDER
One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound. - HEADSTRONG
1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn; - INSALUTARY
1. Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health. 2. Not tending to safety; productive of evil. - SOUNDLESS
Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak. - MISSOUND
To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall. - HEADSTRONGNESS
Obstinacy. Gayton. - DIARRHEAL; DIARRHOEAL
Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.