healthful

Definition

Beneficial to bodily health.

Etymology

From Middle English helthful, helþful, helþeful, equivalent to health + -ful.

Example Sentences

• "Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students […]"
• "The advertisement [published in 1856] concluded with the announcement that the excursion was being run "to afford the industrious classes the opportunity of enjoying the healthful and invigorating sea-breezes of Southport, and the luxury of sea-bathing, or the numerous objects of interest and amusement at Liverpool.""
• "A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage."

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