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healthfull

healthfull is the archaic form of healthful.

Meaning of healthful

Adjective

healthful (comparative healthfuller or more healthful, superlative healthfullest or most healthful)

  1. Beneficial to bodily health.
    • Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students […]1906, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 7, page 210
  2. Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.
    • She trusted it was a sign that his mind was recovering a more healthful state, that he was not obliged to refer to his imagination, and, by giving her an ideal existence, compel himself to love her as the representative of another; surely, if he could do so long without the real Margarita, and...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 128
  3. (archaic) Synonym of healthy (“evincing health”).
    • His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.1835, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Knight of Provençe, and His Proposal”, in Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book II (The Revolution), page 184
    Synonyms:
    healthy

Forms of healthfull

comparativemore healthfull
superlativemost healthfull

Questions about healthfull

What is healthfull the archaic form of?
Healthfull is the archaic form of healthful.

Words near healthfull in the dictionary

  1. healthens
  2. healthes
  3. healthfood
  4. healthfoods
  5. healthful
  6. healthfull
  7. healthfuller
  8. healthfullest
  9. healthfully
  10. healthfulness
  11. healthie

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