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healthful

adjective

Simple meaning

Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity.

Pronunciation

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hehlthfuhl

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IPA pronunciation (US)

ˈhɛlθfəl

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Word Review

Definition

Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.

adjective

  1. Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.

  2. Beneficial to bodily health.

Word at a Glance

Difficulty
C2 · Proficient (estimated)
Frequency
Uncommon
Typical Use
Primarily written

Word Aura™

How this word commonly comes across.

Aura for this meaning

This meaning: Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.

Used this way, healthful is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It turns up most in ethics or values contexts.

Emotional tone
Neutral
Formality
Neutral
Intensity
Not strongly marked
How common
Moderately common
Connotation
No strong connotation
Usage feel
Neutral and straightforward

Where it naturally appears

  • Ethics/values

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  • “A healthful climate.”adjective

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Common Patterns and Combinations

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healthful livinghealthful exercisehealthful diethealthful foodhealthful environmenthealthful climatehealthful lifehealthful working

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Word Family

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Word family

Words built from the same root.

  • healthyadjectiveDerived adjective

    Having or indicating good health in body or mind.

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Antonyms

Sense: conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity

unhealthfulRare

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