Associations to the word «Wholesome»

Wiktionary

WHOLESOME, adjective. Promoting good health and well-being.
WHOLESOME, adjective. Promoting moral and mental well-being.
WHOLESOME, adjective. Sound and healthy.
WHOLESOME, adjective. Promoting virtue or being virtuous.

Dictionary definition

WHOLESOME, adjective. Conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food".
WHOLESOME, adjective. Sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind; "exercise develops wholesome appetites"; "a grin on his ugly wholesome face".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats