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healsome

healsome adjective: wholesome; healthful.

Adjective

healsome (comparative more healsome, superlative most healsome)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal) Wholesome; healthful.

Forms of healsome

comparativemore healsome
superlativemost healsome

Origin of healsome

Anglicised variant of Scots hailsome, equivalent to heal + -some.

Questions about healsome

What does healsome mean?
Healsome means wholesome; healthful.
What part of speech is healsome?
Healsome is an adjective.

Words near healsome in the dictionary

  1. heals up
  2. healsfang
  3. healsfangs
  4. healslut
  5. healsluts
  6. healsome
  7. health
  8. health activation
  9. health and fitness age
  10. health and fitness ages
  11. health and safety

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