Healthful /(-fụl)/

Health·ful

Healthful

a.
  1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
  2. 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.
  3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition.
    A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned.
  4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.]
    Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests.