Synonyms for wholesome
ˈhoʊl səmwhole·some

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1. wholesomeadjective

   Antonyms:
   unwholesome

2. wholesomeadjective

   Antonyms:
   unwholesome

3. wholesomeadjective

   Antonyms:
   unwholesome

4. wholesomeadjective

   sound and healthy

   Synonyms:
   healthful, healthy, salubrious

   Antonyms:
   unwholesome

5. wholesomeadjective

   Antonyms:
   unwholesome

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1. wholesome

   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.

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

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

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1. wholesome

   Synonyms:
   healthful, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, beneficial, nutritious, healing

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy, unhealthful, insalubrious, insanitary, prejudicial, unwholesome, deleterious, detrimental, morbific

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1. wholesomeadjective

   conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being

   "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"

   Antonyms:
   offensive, jejune, unhealthful, loathsome, nauseous, morbid, insalubrious, nauseating, sickening, insubstantial, noisome, queasy, unwholesome, vile, unhealthy, rich

2. wholesomeadjective

   sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind

   "exercise develops wholesome appetites"; "a grin on his ugly wholesome face"

   Antonyms:
   queasy, sickening, morbid, rich, nauseating, jejune, unhealthy, insalubrious, noisome, nauseous, offensive, loathsome, unhealthful, vile, insubstantial, unwholesome

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1. wholesomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   healthy, healthful, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, helpful, nourishing, nutritious, strengthening, invigorating, roborant

2. wholesomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   beneficial, good

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1. wholesomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   healthy, salubrious, salutary, nutritious, beneficial

   Antonyms:
   unhealthy

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1. List of paraphrases for "wholesome":

   healthy, hygienic, nutritious, sound

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1. Howard Milstein:

   Jack is the most genuine and most wholesome and straightforward and successful American that you will find, those are great attributes in a partner, and he is good to his word.

2. Phyllis McGinley:

   Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

3. Henry David Thoreau:

   Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life

4. Alison Brie:

   The biggest misconception about me is that I’m very wholesome, after playing Trudy and Annie back to back, people would say, ‘Oh, you’re like Miss Priss,’ and I’m really not. I had a very wild 20s.

5. Joel H. Hildebrand:

   The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own.