Antonyms for healthful
ˈhɛlθ fəlhealth·ful

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1. healthfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   healthy, salubrious, salutary

2. healthfuladjective

   Beneficial to health of body or mind.

   Synonyms:
   healthy, salutary, salubrious

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1. healthful

   Healthy is most correctly used to signify possessing or enjoying health or its results; as, a healthy person; a healthy condition. Healthful signifies promotive of health, tending or adapted to confer, preserve, or promote health; as, a healthful climate. Wholesome food in a healthful climate makes a healthy man. With healthful are ranged the words hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, and wholesome, while the other words are associated with healthy. Salubrious is always used in the physical sense, and is chiefly applied to air or climate. Salutary is now chiefly used in the moral sense; as, a salutary lesson.

   Antonyms:
   delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, failing, fainting, fragile, frail, ill, sick, unhealthy, unsound, wasted, weak, worn, worn down, worn out

   Synonyms:
   hale, healthy, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sound, strong, vigorous, well, wholesome

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1. healthfuladjective

   conducive to good health of body or mind

   "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"

   Antonyms:
   infective, unmedicative, unhealthy, unmedicinal, disabling, unmedical, crippling, nonmedicinal, pathogenic, incapacitating, unhealthful, morbific, cytopathogenic

   Synonyms:
   sanitary

2. sanitary, healthfuladjective

   free from filth and pathogens

   "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom"

   Antonyms:
   unhealthful, nonmedicinal, pathogenic, incapacitating, unhealthy, morbific, unmedicinal, cytopathogenic, infective, unmedical, disabling, crippling, unmedicative

   Synonyms:
   sanitary

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1. healthfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   healthy, salubrious, wholesome

How to use healthful in a sentence?

1. Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi:

   To keep the mind empty is a feat, a very healthful feat too.

2. Ganesh Palapattu:

   My general philosophy with these sorts of things are still for patients to not overreact with these studies, to continue to do the things that are known to be hopeful and healthful, don't smoke. Try to maintain your ideal body weight. Exercise regularly. Wear a helmet. Don't text and drive. Wear a seat belt.

3. Corey Basch:

   This is a sad situation when it takes so much energy to sift through false claims and to determine which products are actually healthful ... advertising claims, especially when they are unsubstantiated, can certainly lead parents astray.

4. Vanessa Oddo:

   We think that unemployment (resulting in decreased income) could render fruits and vegetables and other more healthful foods unaffordable. This would likely lead to increased consumption of cheaper, highly processed convenience foods (e.g. boxed macaroni and cheese).

5. Rachel Stahl:

   For instance, it may make people less mindful of portion sizes and less likely to make healthful choices.

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