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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

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

How to use wholesome in a sentence?

  1. Virginia Stallings:

    The meals in school are going to keep getting better and better, they’re going to get more wholesome and more nutritious.

  2. Butler:

    Law does not put the least restraint Upon our freedom, but maintain?st; Or, if it does, ?tis for our good, To give us freer latitude: For wholesome laws preserve us free, By stinting of our liberty.

  3. James Russell Lowell:

    Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

  4. Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal":

    I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

  5. Scott Pinsker:

    Kudos to the Hallmark Channel for identifying a niche in the marketplace that was underserviced and underutilized. It takes courage to zig when everyone zags, but now that Hallmark has proven there’s a sizable audience for this kind of wholesome content, other networks will certainly jump on the bandwagon, if Hallmark-style programming draws big ratings, TV execs will definitely try to monetize the trend.


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