Synonyms for wholesome
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Healthy — promoting good physical health and well-being
healthy, healthful, salubrious, good, nourishing, fresh, sweet, beneficial, sound, invigorating, salutary, healthsome dated
2. Nutritious
Definitions
- adj. 1
Promoting good physical health and well-being.
- adj. 2
Promoting moral and mental well-being.
Choose the right word
Wholesome food in a healthful climate makes a healthy man. With healthful are ranged the words hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, and wholesome, while the other words are associated with healthy.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- healthy Sports make us healthy in mind as well as in body.
- nourishing This fish is inexpensive but nourishing.
- healthful My goats are more healthful than this man's oxen will ever be.
- salubrious Tom had to move to a less salubrious neighborhood.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| wholesome | steady | |
| healthy | rising | |
| nourishing | rising | |
| healthful | steady | |
| salubrious | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- good1
- 5 letters
- sound1, sweet1, fresh1
- 6 letters
- edible3
- 7 letters
- healthy2
- 8 letters
- salutary4
- 9 letters
- healthful2, nutritive3
- 10 letters
- beneficial4, nutritious3, nourishing3, salubrious, healthsome
- 12 letters
- invigorating5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (edible3 = 3 syllables).