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Adjective: healthful  helth-ful
  1. Conducive to good health of body or mind
    "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"
     
  2. Free from filth and pathogens
    - sanitary

See also: alterative, anthelminthic, anthelmintic, antimicrobial, antimicrobic, antiseptic, carminative, cathartic, curative, drugless, flatus-relieving, good, healing, helminthic, hygienic, hygienical, medicative, medicinal, officinal, organic, orthomolecular, parasiticidal, preventative, preventive, prophylactic, psychotherapeutic, recuperative, remedial, restorative, salutary, sanative, sanatory, therapeutic, wholesome

Antonym: unhealthful

Encyclopedia: Healthful

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