1
[ adjective ] conducive to good health of body or mind

Examples

"a healthful climate" "a healthful environment" "healthful nutrition" "healthful sleep" "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"

Used in print

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

A salad with greens and tomato is a popular and wonderfully healthful addition to a meal , but add an avocado and you have something really special .

Related terms

unhealthful curative preventive beneficial drugless medicative cathartic recuperative antimicrobial organic carminative anthelmintic wholesome antiseptic

2
[ adjective ] free from filth and pathogens

Synonyms

sanitary

Examples

"sanitary conditions for preparing food" "a sanitary washroom"

Related terms

unsanitary hygienic

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Rhymes with

unhealthful helpful unhelpful faithful zestful restful neglectful disrespectful respectful eventful resentful eventful uneventful youthful forgetful vengeful fretful unfaithful plentiful truthful hateful hurtful fitful regretful forgetful careful untruthful wasteful tasteful lawful distasteful baleful dreadful prayerful suspenseful plentiful thoughtful fateful unsuccessful successful stressful willful delightful mistrustful shameful fistful wistful distrustful lustful skillful artful rightful doubtful tactful blissful pitiful wishful painful stifle gainful beautiful masterful soulful ungrateful colorful doleful bountiful boastful disgraceful spiteful grateful fruitful frightful purposeful bashful harmful graceful fearful awful eiffel dutiful deceitful playful merciful watchful insightful worshipful tuneful gleeful truffle flavorful trifle disdainful prayerful tearful powerful baffle raffle muffle ruffle riffle duffel unlawful falafel rueful rifle waffle woeful wonderful kerfuffle joyful shuffle scuffle sinful cheerful mistrustful triumphal apocryphal needful peaceful fanciful useful thankful hopeful houseful wrongful mindful mournful forceful scornful sorrowful bountiful remorseful meaningful reshuffle resourceful

Phonetic and Homophones

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Similar Spelling

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