| wholesome | 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. Whole"somely, Whole"someness. Origin: Whole + some; cf. Icel. Heilsamr, G. Heilsam, D. Heilzaam. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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