Wholesome

a.	1.
	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.

Adj.	1.	wholesome - conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food" Antonyms: unwholesome - detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
	2.	wholesome - sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind; "exercise develops wholesome appetites"; "a grin on his ugly wholesome face"

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