Word Meanings - WHOLESOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. Milton. From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. A Smith. 2. Contributing to the health of the

Additional info about word: WHOLESOME

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WHOLESOME)

• Beneficial
• Profitable
• salutary
• advantageous
• wholesome
• salubrious
• Edible
• Esculent
• culinary
• eatable
• Healthy
• Vigorous
• sound
• robust
• strong
• hale
• hearty
• healthful
• Innocuous
• Inoffensive
• harmless
• Sound
• Entire
• unbroken
• whole
• perfect
• unhurt
• well-grounded
• uninjured
• unimpaired
• healthy
• firm
• vigorous
• weighty
• solid
• irrefragable
• irrefutable
• thorough
• valid
• correct
• substantial

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WHOLESOME)

• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt

Related words: (words related to WHOLESOME)

• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• HARMLESS
  1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless. 2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. " The harmless deer." Drayton Syn. -- Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt;
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• EATABLE
  Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• EDIBLENESS
  Suitableness for being eaten.
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• 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.
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• THOROUGH BASS
  The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• 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.
• INOFFENSIVE
  1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. Milton.
• 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
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• 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
• INCREDIBLENESS
  Incredibility.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• INSUBSTANTIAL
  Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." Shak.
• SUPERSUBSTANTIAL
  More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• CONSOLIDATION
  To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the