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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How to use wholesome in a sentence?

1. Emmeline Snively:

   Norma Jeane looked like the girl next door, and I thought I could make her into something quite marketable in a short length of time, she was very beautiful in a clean-cut American wholesome way.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. James Russell Lowell:

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