English-Thai Dictionary

wholesome

ADJ ซึ่ง เป็นประโยชน์  ซึ่ง มีประโยชน์ ต่อ สุขภาพ  เกี่ยวกับ การ มี สุขภาพ ดี  ส่งเสริม สุขภาพ  healthful healthy salubrious unhealthy sueng-pen-pra-yod

 

wholesomely

ADV อย่าง เป็นประโยชน์ ต่อ สุขภาพ  yang-pen-pra-yod-tor-suk-ka-pab

 

wholesomeness

N การ ส่งเสริม สุขภาพ  healthfulness healthiness salubriousness unhealthiness kan-song-soem-suk-ka-pab

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WHOLESOME

a.[G.] 1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; as wholesome air or diet; a wholesome climate.
2. Sound; contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion or prosperity; as wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths.
3. Useful; salutary; conducive to public happiness, virtue or peace; as a wholesome law.
4. That utters sound words.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. Proverbs 15:4.
5. Kindly; pleasing; as a wholesome answer.
Wholesome ship, a ship that will try, hull and ride well.

 

WHOLESOMELY

adv. In a wholesome or salutary manner; salubriously.

 

WHOLESOMENESS

n. 1. The quality of contributing to health; salubrith; as the wholesomeness of air or diet.
2. Salutariness; conduciveness to the health of the mind or of the body politic; as the wholesomeness of doctrines or laws.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

WHOLESOME

Whole "some, a. [Compar. Wholesomer; superl. Wholesomest.] Etym: [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G. heilsam, D. heilzaam.]

 

1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. Milton. From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. A Smith.

 

2. Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws.A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. Prov. xv. 4. I can not. .. make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased. Shak. A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained. Sir W. Scott.

 

3. Sound; healthy. [Obs. ] Shak. -- Whole "some *ly, adv. -- Whole "some *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

wholesome

whole some |ˈhōlsəm ˈhoʊlsəm | ▶adjective conducive to or suggestive of good health and physical well-being: the food is plentiful and very wholesome. • conducive to or promoting moral well-being: good wholesome fun. DERIVATIVES whole some ly adverb, whole some ness noun ORIGIN Middle English: probably already in Old English (see whole, -some 1 ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

wholesome

whole |some |ˈhəʊls (ə )m | ▶adjective conducive to or suggestive of good health and physical well-being: the food is plentiful and very wholesome. • conducive to or characterized by moral well-being: good wholesome fun. DERIVATIVES wholesomely adverb, wholesomeness noun ORIGIN Middle English: probably already in Old English (see whole, -some 1 ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

wholesome

wholesome adjective 1 wholesome food: healthy, health-giving, healthful, good (for one ), nutritious, nourishing; natural, uncontaminated, organic. 2 wholesome fun: good, ethical, moral, clean, virtuous, pure, innocent, chaste; uplifting, edifying, proper, correct, decent, harmless; informal squeaky clean.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

wholesome

wholesome adjective 1 wholesome food: healthy, health-giving, healthful, good, good for one, beneficial, sustaining, strengthening, nutritious, nourishing, full of nourishment, full of nutrients, nutritive, unrefined; natural, uncontaminated, organic, additive-free; rare nutrimental, nutrient, alimentary, alible. 2 good wholesome fun: moral, ethical, good, nice, clean, virtuous, pure, innocent, chaste; uplifting, edifying, improving, non-erotic, non-violent, righteous, upright, upstanding, high-minded, right-minded, proper, correct, honourable, honest, just, noble, respectable, decent, simple; informal squeaky clean.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

wholesome

whole some /hóʊls (ə )m /〖whole (健全に )some (適した )〗形容詞 more ～; most ～/～r ; ～st ｟ほめて ｠1 〈食べ物などが 〉体に良さそうな , 健康になりそうな (healthy ).2 ((性 )道徳的に )健全な , 有益な 〈娯楽 人々など 〉(↔unwholesome ).3 健康そうな .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞