healthful

healthful
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(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. nutritious, restorative, body-building, sanative, sanitary, hygienic, salutary, invigorating, tonic, stimuLating, bracing, salubrious, wholesome, beneficial, health-giving, nutritive, nourishing, energy-giving, fresh, pure, clean, corrective, compensatory, cathartic, sedative, conducive to health, sustentative, regenerative, digestible, restoring, substantial, sustaining, promoting health, benign, good for one, aseptic, sanatory, deSirable, clean, harmless, innocuous, healing, preventive, untainted, disease-free, unpolluted, unadulterated, uninjurious, favorable, advantageous, innoxious; see also healthy , remedial .
Ant. sickly, unwholesome*, noxious.
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(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Promoting good health: healthsome, healthy, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, wholesome. See HEALTH. 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.

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