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Definitions: Healthful |
HealthfulAdjective1. Conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance". 2. Free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "healthful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Healthy, Healthful. A lady wrote to a paper asking, "Are plants in a sleeping-room unhealthy?" The answer came, "Not necessarily; we have seen some very healthy plants growing in sleeping-rooms." Persons are healthy or unhealthy. A plant or tree is healthy or unhealthy according as it possesses vigor. Food, surroundings and conditions are healthful or unhealthful according as they promote or destroy health. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: HealthfulSynonym: sanitary (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: unhealthful (adj), unsanitary (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Health | Adjective: healthy, healthful; in health; Noun: well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole; florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof. |
Salubrity | Adjective: salubrious, salutary, salutiferous; wholesome; healthy, healthful; sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious; hygeian, hygienic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Healthful |
| English words defined with "healthful": Acacia xanthophloea ♦ deprived, disadvantaged ♦ fever tree ♦ good for you ♦ healthy ♦ insanitary ♦ Muscular Christian ♦ salubrious ♦ unhealthful, unsanitary. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "healthful": Bees ♦ CHANGE-HOUSE ATTENDANT ♦ Dirt, Drunk, dry boss, dry janitor ♦ Healthy ♦ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NURSE, PRIVATE DUTY, nurse, specia ♦ Parsley ♦ School meals initiative for healthy children, shower room attendant, So, Such, Swiss Cheese. (references) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He believed that faith is healthful. |
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Health | Contingency management therapy uses a voucher-based system, where patients earn "points" based on negative drug tests, which they can exchange for items that encourage healthful living. (references) | |
Travel | Kuwait | Food in Kuwait, including salads and dairy products, is generally fresh and healthful; there are many fine restaurants. (references) |
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Rush Limbaugh | If you want healthful food on your own menu, then take care of it. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | While, then, the constituent body retains its present sound and healthful state everything will be safe. |
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| "Healthful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Healthful" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 87.5% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
healthful retirement | 5 |
healthful life morally | 2 |
healthful | 2 |
healthful live.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "healthful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i shëndetshëm (bonny, fit, flourishing, Hale, healthy, hearty, lush, lusty, salubrious, sleek, sound, upstanding, viable, well fed, wholesome), i mirë për shëndetin (healthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صحي (constitutional, healthy, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, wholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хигиеничен (hygienic, sanitary), здравословен (good, healthy, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, wholesome), здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, flush, good, hard, healthy, hearty, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 健康 (health, healthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zdravý (all right, fit, good, Hale, healthly, healthy, right, salubrious, sound, strong, well, well balanced, wholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | terveellinen (beneficial, healthy, salutary, wholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | salubre (healthy), en bonne santé (healthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | heilsam (beneficial, curative, healing, healthfully, medicative, salutary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υγιεινόσ (healthy, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanatory, sanitarian, sanitary, wholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egészséges (conducive to health, fit, going strong, Hale, healthy, laudable, salubrious, sound, untouched, well, wholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sehat (bouncing, hale, healthy, sane, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sano (bonny, clear, fit, hale, healthily, healthy, on-grade, right, salubrious, sound, unharmed, upstanding, well, whole, wholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 健康的 (hygienic, sanitary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | け""うてき (hygienic, sanitary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 건강에 좋은. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ealthfulhay vigoroso (active, alive, bold, bouncing, energetic, flush, Hale, hard cover book, healthy, hegemony, lively, lusty, nervous breakdown, nervy, peppy, pitiable, racy, red blooded, robust, sinewy, smart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, Venturous, vigorous, virile, vital, vivid, wakeless, youthful, zippy), sadio (healthy, lusty, robust, salubrious, sound, strong, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), saúde pública (public health), são (able-bodied, are, Hale, healthy, laudanum, sane, sound, they are, well balanced, whole, wholesome). (various references) tonic (bracing, invigorating, invigorator, pick me up, reparative, restorative, tonic), sãnãtos (able bodied, fresh, good, Hale, healthily, healthy, heartily, i'm allright, right, sagacious, sound, soundly, strong, up to the mark, well, wholesome, wise), moral (courage, ethic, ethical, moral, morale), datator de sãnãtate. (various references) целебный (curative, healing, medicinal, salubrious, sanative, sanatory). (various references) lekovit (curative, healing, medicative, medicinal, remedial, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory). (various references) sano (able bodied, bonny, good, hale, healthy, hearty, integrated, pure-minded, salubrious, sane, sound, whole, wholesome). (various references) hälsosam (healthy, salubrious, salutary, wholesome). (various references) yararlı (advantageous, beneficial, benign, benignant, efficacious, good, handy, healthy, helpful, of use, profitable, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, subservient, useful, wholesome), sağlıklı (bonny, bouncing, fit, florid, healthy, husky, in good health, in good nick, right, ruddy, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, sound, well, whole, wholesome), sağlığa yararlı (good, healty, sanative, sanatory, wholesome). (various references) цілющий (balmy, beneficial, curative, healing, medicative, recuperative, salubrious, sanative, sanatory), здоровий (able bodied, bonny, full-blooded, healthy, hearty, hygienic, hygienical, robust, salubrious, salutary, sound, well, well-conditioned). (various references) l nh mạnh có lợi cho sức khoẻ, l m tăng sức khoẻ. (various references) iachus (healthy, wholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | saluber, salubris, salutare, salutari, salutaria, salutaribus, salutaris, salutarium. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "healthful": healthfully, healthfulness, healthfulnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "healthful": unhealthful. (additional references) | |
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"Healthful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Halhoul, heartful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "healthful" (pronounced he"lthful) |
| 7 | h e" l th f u l | unhealthful. |
| 4 | -th f u l | faithful, truthful, unfaithful, untruthful, youthful. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, tuneful, uneventful, ungrateful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, zestful. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-h-h-l-l-t-u" | |
-2 letters: hateful. | |
-3 letters: fellah, hatful, health, lethal, luteal. | |
-4 letters: ahull, fault, fella, fetal, flute, haute, heath, lathe, lehua, lutea, tulle. | |
-5 letters: alef, eath, fall, fate, feal, feat, fell, felt, feta, flat, flea, flue, fuel, full, haet, haft, hale, half, hall, halt, hate, hath, haul, haut, heal, heat, heft, hell, heth, hula, hull, late, lath, leaf, leal, left, lute, tael, tale, tall, teal, tela, tell, thae, tufa, tule. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-h-h-l-l-t-u" | |
+2 letters: healthfully, unhealthful. | |
+4 letters: healthfulness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 6C 74 68 66 75 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- .-.. - .... ..-. ..- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01101100 01110100 01101000 01100110 01110101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a l t h f u l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 006C 0074 0068 0066 0075 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427167788674728778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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