wholesome

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
18
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈhoʊl.səm/
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/ˈhoʊl.səm/ · /ˈhəʊl.səm/

Definition of wholesome

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Promoting good physical health and well-being.
    “I prethee go, and get me ſome repaſt, I care not what, ſo it be holſome foode.”
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adj

  1. Promoting good physical health and well-being.
    “I prethee go, and get me ſome repaſt, I care not what, ſo it be holſome foode.”
  2. Promoting moral and mental well-being.
    “Though hard, my friends, yet wholesome are the truths, taught in affliction's school, whence the pure soul rises refined, and soars above the world.”
  3. Favorable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous.
    “A wholeſome tongue is a tree of life: but peruerſneſſe therein is a breach in the ſpirit.”
  4. Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.
  5. Decent; innocuous; sweet.
    “Sometimes white Lyllies did their Leaves afford, With wholſom Polly-flow'rs, to mend his homely Board: […]”
    “The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face.”
    “There's something tragic, but almost pure Think I could love you, but I'm not sure There's something wholesome, there's something sweet Tucked in your eyes that I'd love to meet”
    “Around the same time, “wholesome” memes of cute doggos and puppers rejuvenated social media feeds that seemed daily filled with fresh horrors.”
    “The comment section on a recent post making fun of a “cute” and “wholesome” Doomer Girl meme is mixed.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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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