wholesome
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Definition of wholesome
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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
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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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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.”
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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.”
- Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.
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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”).
Words you can make from wholesome
193 playable · top: SOMEHOW (15 pts)
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1 word6-letter words
8 words5-letter words
39 words- WHELM 13 pts
- HOWES 11 pts
- HOWLS 11 pts
- WELSH 11 pts
- WHEEL 11 pts
- WHOLE 11 pts
- WHOSE 11 pts
- WHOSO 11 pts
- WOOSH 11 pts
- HELMS 10 pts
- HEMES 10 pts
- HOLME 10 pts
- HOLMS 10 pts
- HOMES 10 pts
- HOMOS 10 pts
- MEOWS 10 pts
- MEWLS 10 pts
- MOHEL 10 pts
- MOHOS 10 pts
- SHMOE 10 pts
- HEELS 8 pts
- HELOS 8 pts
- HOLES 8 pts
- HOLOS 8 pts
- HOSEL 8 pts
- LOWES 8 pts
- LOWSE 8 pts
- SHEOL 8 pts
- SHOOL 8 pts
- SWOLE 8 pts
- WOOLS 8 pts
- LOOMS 7 pts
- MOLES 7 pts
- MOOLS 7 pts
- MOOSE 7 pts
- OSMOL 7 pts
- SLOMO 7 pts
- LOOSE 5 pts
- OLEOS 5 pts
4-letter words
72 words- WHOM 12 pts
- HEWS 10 pts
- HOWE 10 pts
- HOWL 10 pts
- HOWS 10 pts
- SHEW 10 pts
- SHOW 10 pts
- WHEE 10 pts
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- HOME 9 pts
- HOMO 9 pts
- HOMS 9 pts
- MEOW 9 pts
- MESH 9 pts
- MEWL 9 pts
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- MHOS 9 pts
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- MOSH 9 pts
- MOWS 9 pts
- OHMS 9 pts
- SHMO 9 pts
- SMEW 9 pts
- EWES 7 pts
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- SHOE 7 pts
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- SLEW 7 pts
- SLOW 7 pts
- WEEL 7 pts
- WEES 7 pts
- WOES 7 pts
- WOOL 7 pts
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- SEEM 6 pts
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- SOME 6 pts
- EELS 4 pts
- ELSE 4 pts
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- OLEO 4 pts
- OLES 4 pts
- SEEL 4 pts
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3-letter words
52 words- HEW 9 pts
- HOW 9 pts
- WHO 9 pts
- HEM 8 pts
- HOM 8 pts
- MEH 8 pts
- MEW 8 pts
- MHO 8 pts
- MOW 8 pts
- OHM 8 pts
- EEW 6 pts
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- HES 6 pts
- HOE 6 pts
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- HOS 6 pts
- LOW 6 pts
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- OWE 6 pts
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- SHE 6 pts
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- WEE 6 pts
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- WOO 6 pts
- WOS 6 pts
- ELM 5 pts
- EME 5 pts
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- EMS 5 pts
- MEL 5 pts
- MES 5 pts
- MOL 5 pts
- MOO 5 pts
- MOS 5 pts
- OMS 5 pts
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- EEL 3 pts
- ELS 3 pts
- LEE 3 pts
- LOO 3 pts
- OES 3 pts
- OLE 3 pts
- OSE 3 pts
- SEE 3 pts
- SEL 3 pts
- SOL 3 pts
2-letter words
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