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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Healthful \Health"ful\, a. 1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well whole; sound; healthy; as a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as a healthful air, diet. The healthful Spirit of thy grace. --Book of Common Prayer. 3. Indicating, characterized by or resulting from health or soundness; as a healthful condition. A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned. --Macaulay. 4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.] Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: healthful adj 1: conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance" [ant: {unhealthful}] 2: free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom" [syn: {sanitary}] [ant: {unsanitary}]
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