healthful, wholesome, salubrious, salutary mean favorable to the health of mind or body. healthful implies a positive contribution to a healthy condition.

Animal physiology: fit & healthy (Definition of healthful from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

To summarize, healthful is an adjective that describes something that promotes health, such as foods or habits. Healthy, on the other hand, is an adjective used to describe a person, animal, …

HEALTHFUL definition: conducive to health; wholesome or salutary. See examples of healthful used in a sentence.

Definition of healthful adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Oct 8, 2025 · When a clearer distinction is intended, healthy is used to describe the state of the object, and healthful describes its ability to impart health to the recipient.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024 health•ful (helth′ fəl), adj. conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet. healthy.