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单词 healthful
释义 health·ful
\-thfəl\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English helthful, from helthe health + -ful
1. : beneficial to health of body or mind : conducive to health : salutary
 < a healthful climate >
2. : healthy
 < a weird translation of Dickens' relatively healthful exuberance into a morbid … mysticism — Writer >
 < physical organization … which was at once healthful and exquisitely delicate — Nathaniel Hawthorne >
Synonyms:
 healthy, wholesome, salubrious, salutary, hygienic, sanitary: healthful and healthy are both used to mean conducive to or indicative of health or soundness, the former word being preferred in some quarters
  < a healthful climate >
  < better nutrition, more healthful housing, sounder forms of recreation — Lewis Mumford >
  < one of the healthiest climates in England — Arnold Bennett >
  < extolled the healthy air of the hills as the best way to recover from fever — Hervey Allen >
  < healthy and normal outlets for youthful energies — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager >
  wholesome may more strongly suggest beneficial, upbuilding, or sustaining capacities, physically, intellectually, or spiritually
  < wholesome meats >
  < the warm rays of the sun, too, were wholesome for him in body and soul — Nathaniel Hawthorne >
  < one trade is healthier or cleanlier than another, that it is carried on in a more wholesome or pleasant locality — Alfred Marshall >
  < wholesome, fast-reading adaptations for teenagers of the adult best sellers they want to read — New York Times Book Review >
  salubrious may suggest the pleasantly invigorating or bracing
  < these uplands are likewise often the most salubrious seat of living, with their fine scenery, their bracing ionized air, their range of recreation, from mountain-climbing and fishing to swimming and ice-skating — Lewis Mumford >
  salutary may describe something corrective, tonic, or otherwise beneficially effective although the thing in question may in itself be unpleasant
  < in the open air, which is the most salutary of all things for both body and mind — R.L.Stevenson >
  < salutary was the tartness with which she protested, “You're the most conceited man that ever lived!” — Sinclair Lewis >
  < idle ladies and gentlemen are treated with salutary contempt, whilst the worker's blouse is duly honored — G.B.Shaw >
  hygienic is likely to suggest conformity with various health principles and laws
  < anyone … who took the proper amount of balanced food, or consumed his excess heat units in regular exercise, and lived a reasonably hygienic life — V.G.Heiser >
  sanitary implies cleanly precaution against contamination, infection, or other unhealthful developments
  < the sanitary appearance of the hospital kitchen >
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