healthful
/'helθful/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Conducive to good health; promoting physical or mental well-being: Describes something that helps to maintain or improve health.
- Free from filth and pathogens; sanitary: Describes conditions that are clean and free from agents that cause disease.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Eating fruits and vegetables is a healthful habit.
- The mountain resort offers a healthful climate with clean air.
- It is important to maintain a healthful environment in hospitals.
Advanced Usage
- "Healthful" vs. "Healthy": While often used interchangeably in casual speech, a traditional distinction exists. "Healthful" describes something that health (e.g., healthful food). "Healthy" describes something that health (e.g., a healthy person). However, "healthy" is now commonly used for both meanings.
- Traditional: Spinach is a healthful food that contributes to a healthy body.
- Modern/Casual: Try to eat healthy foods.
Variants and Related Words
- Healthfully (adverb): In a manner that promotes health.
- She learned to cook more healthfully.
- Healthfulness (noun): The quality of being healthful.
- The healthfulness of the Mediterranean diet is well-documented.
Synonyms
- Salubrious: Favorable to or promoting health or well-being (often for climate or air).
- Wholesome: Conducive to or suggestive of good health and physical well-being.
- Nutritious: Nourishing; efficient as food.
- Hygienic: Conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease, especially by being clean; sanitary.
Antonyms
- Unhealthful: Not conducive to good health; harmful.
- Deleterious: Causing harm or damage.
- Insalubrious: (Of a climate or environment) not pleasant or healthful to live in.
Adjective
- free from filth and pathogens
- sanitary conditions for preparing food
- a sanitary washroom
- conducive to good health of body or mind
- a healthful climate
- a healthful environment
- healthful nutrition
- healthful sleep
- Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance