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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1. 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.

2. Aretha Franklin:

   I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

3. Dawn Wells:

   I have been resonating with young boys for 50 years, [But] it was wholesome and not risque. So mom and dad didn’t care what you watched. And I think we raised a good generation because of that… I’ve had soldiers tell me, ‘I carried your picture in my helmet.’ I had families say, ‘The only way we ever got along was when we were watching your show.’ It had an impact that was far more than just 30 minutes.

4. Nancy Pelosi:

   Nothing is more wholesome for America, for our system of government and politics than the increased participation of women in our leadership and their participation in our government, i honestly believe if we decrease the role of money in politics and increase the level of civility in politics, we'll even have many more women who will go forward, enter the arena, win the fight( and) make a difference.

5. Joel H. Hildebrand:

   The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own.