Meaning

5 senses

  1. Promoting good physical health and well-being.

    gesund, heilsam, gesundheitsfördernd

    поле́зныйpoléznyj, благотво́рныйblagotvórnyj

    conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being

  2. Promoting moral and mental well-being.

  3. Favorable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous.

    tugendhaft, rechtschaffen

    добродетельныйdobrodetelʹnyj, благонравныйblagonravnyj

  4. Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.

    gesund, förderlich

    здоровыйzdorovyj

  5. Decent; innocuous; sweet.

Examples

10 sentences

  1. She prepares wholesome meals for her family.

    ruОна готовит полезную пищу для своей семьи.

    deSie kocht gesunde Mahlzeiten für ihre Familie.

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  2. I want to eat something wholesome.

    ruЯ хочу съесть что-нибудь полезное.

    deIch möchte etwas Gesundes essen.

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  3. Mirth is wholesome, superior to weeping.

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  4. Their objective is a wholesome life.

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  5. Some lectures are not wholesome for children.

    deEinige Vorträge eignen sich nicht für Kinder.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
promoting good health, and well-being:
favourable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous:
marked by wholeness; sound and healthy:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
promoting good health, and well-being:
favourable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous:
marked by wholeness; sound and healthy:

Origin

From earlier holesome, from Middle English holsom, holsum, helsum, halsum, from Old Englis

From earlier holesome, from Middle English holsom, holsum, helsum, halsum, from Old English *hālsum, *hǣlsum, from Proto-West Germanic *hailasam, from Proto-Germanic *hailasamaz, equivalent to whole + -some or hale (“healthy”) + -some. Cognate with Saterland Frisian heelsoam, Dutch heilzaam, German Low German heelsaam, German heilsam, Icelandic heilsamur, Norwegian Nynorsk helsesam, Swedish hälsosam (“wholesome”).

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Forms

more wholesome/wholesomer, most wholesome/wholesomest

Synonyms

3 synonyms
promoting health:healthyA1healthfulsalubrious

Antonyms

1 antonyms
unwholesome

Word family

2 related words
Relatedwholesomeness
Derivedwholesomely

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wholesalewholesalerwhollyC2whomA2whomeverwhoop
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