English > healthful: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | conducive to good health of body or mind. |
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| Examples | - "a healthful climate"
- "a healthful environment"
- "healthful nutrition"
- "healthful sleep"
- "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"
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| Narrower | anthelmintic, anthelminthic, helminthic, parasiticidal | capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms |
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| antimicrobial, antimicrobic | capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms |
| carminative, flatus-relieving | relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) |
| cathartic, psychotherapeutic | emotionally purging |
| curative, healing, alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic | tending to cure or restore to health |
| drugless | Without the use of drugs |
| good, salutary | tending to promote physical well-being |
| medicative, medicinal | Having the properties of medicine |
| organic | simple and healthful and close to nature |
| orthomolecular | Designating or relating to a form of treatment of mental disorders that seeks to restore biochemical balance in the body with large doses of vitamins and minerals |
| preventive, preventative, prophylactic | preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease |
| recuperative, restorative | Promoting recuperation |
| See also | antiseptic | Thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms |
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| wholesome | conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being |
| Opposite | unhealthful | detrimental to good health |
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| Spanish | saludable |
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| Nouns | healthfulness | the quality of promoting good health |
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