Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. [1913 Webster]
Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. [1913 Webster]
"The healthful Spirit of thy grace." [1913 Webster]
Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition. [1913 Webster]
"A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned." [1913 Webster]
Well-disposed; favorable. [1913 Webster]
"Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

healthful, adj. conducive to good health; beneficial.

Derivative

healthfully adv. healthfulness n.

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THESAURUS

healthful

advantageous, aiding, alive and kicking, alleviative, beneficial, benign, bracing, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, chipper, constitutional, corrective, curative, enjoying health, eupeptic, fine, fit, fit and fine, full of beans, good, good for, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthy, helpful, hygeian, hygienic, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health, in good shape, in health, in high feather, in mint condition, in shape, in the pink, invigorating, mitigative, profitable, refreshing, remedial, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanitary, tonic, useful, wholesome

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ROGET THESAURUS

healthful

Health

N health, sanity, soundness, vigor, good health, perfect health, excellent health, rude health, robust health, bloom, mens sana in corpore sano, Hygeia, incorruption, incorruptibility, good state of health, clean bill of health, eupepsia, euphoria, euphory, St. Anthony's fire, healthy, healthful, in health, well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole, florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof, unscathed, uninjured, unmaimed, unmarred, untainted, sound of wind and limb, safe and sound, on one's legs, sound as a roach, sound as a bell, fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, fresh as April, hearty as a buck, in fine feather, in high feather, in good case, in full bloom, pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as well as can be expected, sanitary sanatory, health that snuffs the morning air, non est vivere sed valere vita.

Salubrity

N salubrity, healthiness, fine air, fine climate, eudiometer, hygiene, valetudinarian, valetudinarianism, sanitarian, sanitarium, sanitOrium, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, wholesome, healthy, healthful, sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious, hygeian, hygienic, innoxious, innocuous, innocent, harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious, sanative, restorative, useful.

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