wholesome
English
/ˈhoʊlsəm/
adj
Definitions
- Promoting good physical health and well-being.
- Promoting moral and mental well-being.
- Favourable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous.
- Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English holsom inherited from Old English *hālsum inherited from Proto-Germanic *hailasamaz suffix from English whole.
Origin
English
whole
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- health English
- heartwhole English
- holy English
- nonwhole English
- unwhole English
- unwholesome English
- unwholesomely English
- unwholesomeness English
- whole English
- whole-footed English
- whole-hearted English
- whole-time English
- wholegrain English
- wholehearted English
- wholely English
- wholemeal English
- wholeness English
- wholesale English
- wholesomely English
- wholesomeness English
- wholestitch English
- wholetime English
- wholewise English
- wholist English
- wholistic English
- wholly English
- wholth English
- heil Dutch, Flemish
- heilzaam Dutch, Flemish
- *hailasamaz Proto-Germanic
- *hālsum Old English
- hole Middle English
- holsom Middle English
- holsumly Middle English
- holsumnesse Middle English
- unholsom Middle English