wholesome

a. உடலுக்கு உகந்த, ஆரோக்கியமான, நற்பயன் விளைவிக்கிற, நலந்தருகிற.

Synonyms

healthful salubrious salutary salutiferous beneficial nutritious healing

Antonyms

unhealthy unhealthful insalubrious insanitary prejudicial unwholesome deleterious detrimental morbific

Whole"some, a. [Compar. Wholesomer; superl. Wholesomest.] Etym: [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G. heilsam, D. heilzaam.] 1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. Milton. From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. A Smith. 2. Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. Prov. xv. 4. I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased. Shak. A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained. Sir W. Scott. 3. Sound; healthy. [Obs.] Shak. -- Whole"some*ly, adv. -- Whole"some*ness, n.

wholesome - Similar Words

unwholesome woesome dolesome wheedlesome holsom wholesale holostome whole-souled welsome awesome