wholesome
Meaning
- Promoting good physical health and well-being.
- Promoting moral and mental well-being.
- Favorable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous.
- Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.
- Decent; innocuous; sweet.
Synonyms
rich food
agreeable to nature
of use
Translations
salubre
gesund
sain
sano
gezond
υγιεινός
saudável
sıhhatli
tutus υγιήςFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈholsəm/
Etymology
In summary
From earlier holesome, from Middle English holsom, holsum, helsum, halsum, from Old English *hālsum, *hǣlsum, from Proto-West Germanic *hailasam, from Proto-Germanic *hailasamaz, equivalent to whole + -some or hale (“healthy”) + -some. Cognate with Saterland Frisian heelsoam, Dutch heilzaam, German Low German heelsaam, German heilsam, Icelandic heilsamur, Norwegian Nynorsk helsesam, Swedish hälsosam (“wholesome”).
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