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wholesome

wholesome

71 3.1
Helps your body and mind stay healthy
  • adjective
  • /ˈhoʊlsəm/
translation icon : saludable
  • He is a good and wholesome young man.
  • wholesome food
  • safe and wholesome
  • wholesome attitudes

It's just this like really wholesome, cute group of people.

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Examples

  • Eating fresh fruits and vegetables is a wholesome choice for maintaining good health.

  • And that piece of advice was the most wholesome piece of advice I could have received.

  • And that will be the most wholesome thing that we can do.

  • We're having a cute little wholesome girl night set up.

  • People can come and work, have really kind of wholesome, just wholesome food.

  • It's just this like really wholesome, cute group of people.

  • Let me start with a super wholesome choice.

  • Because I have healthy, wholesome, happy relationships.

  • You think of the best teachers you know, the most wholesome school atmosphere you know.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Like I feel like being out in fields picking fruit is quite wholesome fun.

Synonyms

good
vswholesome
1.0

Helping your health and making you feel well

emphasizes moral goodness and proper conduct rather than general benefit
healthy
vswholesome
419 1.0

Helps the body or mind stay well

also implies moral goodness or proper character beyond a physical focus
healthful
vswholesome
15 3.2

Good for the body and keeps you from getting sick

also suggests moral well-being beyond purely physical focus

Antonyms

4 6.3

Harmful to health or to how someone behaves

How Wholesome

restorative
14 5.4
beneficial
138 3.4
wholesome
71 3.1
helpful
689 1.0
benign
35 6.2

Surface Forms

wholesome positive
wholesomer comparative
wholesomest superlative

Morphology

wholesome = whole (transparent) = whole + some

The meaning can be directly derived from 'whole' plus the adjectival '-some' meaning 'causing or characterized by', yielding 'promoting health or goodness'.

Etymology

Wholesome comes from whole meaning 'complete' or 'healthy' and the ending -some meaning 'full of' or 'likely to cause'. So a wholesome thing helps make you feel whole and well, which is why the word means both physically healthy and morally good.