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Whole"some (?), a. [Compar. Wholesomer (?); superl. Wholesomest.] [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G. heilsam, D. heilzaam.]

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. [Obs.] Shak.

-- Whole"some*ly, adv. -- Whole"some*ness, n.

Whole"some (?), a. [Compar. Wholesomer (?); superl. Wholesomest.] [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G. heilsam, D. heilzaam.]

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. [Obs.] Shak.

-- Whole"some*ly, adv. -- Whole"some*ness, n.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • promoting good health and well-being
  • sound and healthy
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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