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Synonyms for wholesome
ˈhoʊl səmwhole·some

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Wiktionary1.9 / 7 votes

  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

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. wholesome

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

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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. wholesomeadjective

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

  2. wholesomeadjective

    Synonyms:
    beneficial, good

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. wholesomeadjective

    Synonyms:
    healthy, salubrious, salutary, nutritious, beneficial

    Antonyms:
    unhealthy

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "wholesome":

    healthy, hygienic, nutritious, sound

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#157well
#803sound
#1340strong
#2615healthy
#4516healing
#7883beneficial
#13478sanitary
#13626hale
#19156vigorous
#23927hearty
#28082nutritious
#29956wholesome
#35453hygienic
#39413healthful
#78072salutary
#183371salubrious

How to use wholesome in a sentence?

  1. Steve Martin:

    I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

  2. Emily Dickinson:

    A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

  3. Lord Salisbury:

    If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

  4. Ricky Dickson:

    Over the past several months, we have been working to make our facilities even better, and to make sure everything we produce is safe, wholesome and of the highest quality.

  5. James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh":

    As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.


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