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Healthful   /hˈɛlθfəl/   Listen
Healthful

adjective
1.
Conducive to good health of body or mind.  "A healthful environment" , "Healthful nutrition" , "Healthful sleep" , "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"
2.
Free from filth and pathogens.  Synonym: sanitary.  "A sanitary washroom"



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"Healthful" Quotes from Famous Books



... cheerful face on Christmas morning. The snow that fell a fortnight previous had been washed away by continued heavy rains. A cold wind, biting, but healthful, quickened the pulse and brought roses to ...
— Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life • Charles Felton Pidgin
... on the {67} ladies on all occasions? Have you a good set of teeth, which you are willing to show whenever the wit of the company gets off a good thing? Are you a true, straightforward, manly fellow, with whose healthful and uncorrupted nature it is good for society to come in contact? In short, do you possess anything of any social value? If you do, and are willing to impart it, society will yield itself to your ...
— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis
... stared at the remains of a cheap stocking in her lap. Yes, there was no doubt about it, Etta's health was going. Etta was strong, but she had no such store of strength to draw upon as had accumulated for Susan during the seventeen years of simple, regular life in healthful surroundings. A little while and Etta would ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... not dwarf any life which we ought rather to stimulate to noble and beautiful growth. God never makes such mistakes as this. He never fails us in need, but he loves us too well and is too wise to relieve us of weights which we need to make our growth healthful and vigorous. We should learn from God, and should help as ...
— Making the Most of Life • J. R. Miller
... retains its healthful hues, And I have many friends who hold me dear, Linley! methinks, I would not often hear Such melodies as thine, lest I should lose All memory of the wrongs and sore distress For which my miserable brethren weep! But should uncomforted misfortunes ...
— Poems of Coleridge • Coleridge, ed Arthur Symons


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