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[ hohl-suhm ] / ˈhoʊl səm / SEE SYNONYMS FOR wholesome ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveconducive to moral or general well-being; salutary; beneficial: wholesome recreation; wholesome environment. conducive to bodily health; healthful; salubrious: wholesome food; wholesome air; wholesome exercise. suggestive of physical or moral health, especially in appearance. healthy or sound. Origin of wholesome1150–1200; Middle English ho(o)lsom (see whole, -some1); cognate with Old High German heilsam, Old Norse heilsamr SYNONYMS FOR wholesome1 helpful; good. 2 nourishing, nutritious. SEE SYNONYMS FOR wholesome ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for wholesome2, 3. See healthy. OTHER WORDS FROM wholesomewhole·some·ly, adverbwhole·some·ness, nounWords nearby wholesomewholesale, wholesale price index, wholesaling, whole shebang, whole sister, wholesome, whole-souled, whole step, wholetime, whole tone, whole-tone scale Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for wholesomeWith a couple of spare coffee sacks lying about, you can replace your routine workout with a fun and wholesome race. Five cool ways to upcycle old coffee sacks|Harry Guinness|August 27, 2020|Popular Science But religious tolerance would be a wholesome goodie for every boy and girl. Santa Fails One More Time|P. J. O’Rourke|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST They did "wholesome things like hiking and hanging out at home." Boy Shaves Stash, Gets the Girl: Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Forever|Amy Zimmerman|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST "Ice cream is a nutritious and wholesome food," he declared on July 9, 1984. An Investigation Into the Delicious Origins of Ice Cream|Andrew Romano|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We struggle to think of them as unhealthy, because they seem so pure, so wholesome, so stocked with goodness. Your Health Food’s Hidden Sugar Bomb|Michael Schulson|July 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST Two weeks in the world of wholesome niceness also leaves you undefended and strangely serene and a bit childlike. My Week At An Austrian Fat Camp|Owen Matthews|October 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST The characters are all brimful of wholesome human interest with Brenda as a paramount attraction. Napoleon's Young Neighbor|Helen Leah Reed He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson By rising late society can thus avoid what little fresh, wholesome air there is to be obtained in a large city. The Story of the Foss River Ranch|Ridgwell Cullum Other wholesome counsel, which he added, made the Farewell Address a priceless heritage to the generations that came after him. The Greater Republic|Charles Morris Neither does the mother country lose, because she reaps the fruit of their labors in the shape of cheap and wholesome food. Lorimer of the Northwest|Harold Bindloss
British Dictionary definitions for wholesome
adjectiveconducive to health or physical wellbeing conducive to moral wellbeing characteristic or suggestive of health or wellbeing, esp in appearance Derived forms of wholesomewholesomely, adverbwholesomeness, nounWord Origin for wholesomeC12: from whole (healthy) + -some 1; related to German heilsam healing Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to wholesomehygienic, healthful, pure, beneficial, clean, ethical, exemplary, fit, good, hale, helpful, honorable, innocent, invigorating, moral, nice, normal, nourishing, nutritious, respectable |