healthful

adj.

1. Conducive to good health; salutary.
2. Healthy. See Usage Note at healthy.

healthfully health'ful·ly adv.
healthfulness health'ful·ness n.

adjective

1. Promoting good health: healthsome, healthy, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, wholesome. See health/sickness.
2. Having good health: fit¹, hale, healthy, hearty, right, sound², well², whole, wholesome. Idioms: fit as a fiddle, hale and hearty, in fine fettle. See health/sickness.

(hĕlth'fəl)
adj.

1. Conducive to good health; salutary.
2. Healthy.

health'ful·ness n.

Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: conducive to good health of body or mind
  Antonym: unhealthful (meaning #2)

Meaning #2: free from filth and pathogens
  Synonym: sanitary

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - sund

Nederlands (Dutch)
heilzaam, bevorderlijk, gezond

Français (French)
adj. - salutaire, sain, bon pour la santé

Deutsch (German)
adj. - gesund

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - υγιεινός

Italiano (Italian)
salubre

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - sadio, salubre

Русский (Russian)
здоровый, целебный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - sano, saludable

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - hälsosam

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
有益健康的, 卫生的, 使人健康的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 有益健康的, 衛生的, 使人健康的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 건강에 좋은, 건전한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 健康によい, 健康な, 健全な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) صحي, مفيد لصحه الجسد والعقل, معافى, متمتع بالصحه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מבריא, יפה לבריאות‬

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