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. Dick Flanary:

   You think about those kids, that this is the only wholesome meal those children get during the day, when they miss that, what's the result?

2. James Russell Lowell:

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

3. Anatole France:

   The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.

4. Thomas Jefferson:

   I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.

5. 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