Category:Wholesome

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.