Category:Healthful

Health"ful, a.

1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. The healthful Spirit of thy grace. Book of Common Prayer.

3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition. A mind. . . healthful and so well-proportioned. Macaulay.

4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.] Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests. Shak.