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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “HEALTHFUL”

HEALTHFUL a. 4 definitions
Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
HEALTHFULLY adv.
In health; wholesomely.
HEALTHFULNESS n.
The state of being healthful.
BLOOM v.
To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers. A better country blooms to view, Beneath a brighter sky. Logan.
CALISTHENICS n.
The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.
HEALTHINESS n.
The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.
INSALUBRIOUS a.
Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.
INSALUBRITY n.
Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate. Boyle.
LUSTY a.
Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body. Neither would their old men, so many as were yet vigorous and lusty, be left at home. Milton.
MORBID a.
Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne.
MUSCULAR a.
dy or arm. Muscular Christian, one who believes in a part of religious duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state. T. Hughes. -- Muscular CHristianity. (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who believe that it is a part of religious duty to maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who th…
SALUBRIOUS a.
Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.
SALUBRITY n.
g salubrious; favorableness to the preservation of health; salubriousness; wholesomeness; healthfulness; as, the salubrity of the air, of a country, or a climate. "A sweet, dry small of salubrity." G. W. Cable.
SALUTARY a.
Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.
SPONTANEITY n.
dency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and refreshment.
VALETUDINARIAN a.
eeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge. The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay.