Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Healthful \Health"ful\, a.
1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole;
sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful
plant.
2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome;
salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
The healthful Spirit of thy grace. --Book of
Common Prayer.
3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or
soundness; as, a healthful condition.
A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned.
--Macaulay.
4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.]
Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests.
--Shak.
Source : WordNet®
healthful
adj 1: conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful
climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful
nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively
healthful exuberance" [ant: {unhealthful}]
2: free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for
preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom" [syn: {sanitary}]
[ant: {unsanitary}]