healthful Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective conducive to good health of body or mind
- a healthful climate
- a healthful environment
- healthful nutrition
- healthful sleep
- Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance
adjective free from filth and pathogens
sanitary.
- sanitary conditions for preparing food
- a sanitary washroom

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
The healthful Spirit of thy grace. Book of Common Prayer.
Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition.
A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned. Macaulay.
Well-disposed; favorable. R.
Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests. Shak.