more healthful

ADJECTIVE

good for one's wellness

Synonyms

WEAK

advantageous aiding aseptic beneficial benign body-building bracing cathartic clean compensatory conducive corrective desirable disease-free energy-giving fresh harmless healing health-giving helpful hygienic innocuous invigorating mitigative nourishing nutritious nutritive profitable pure restorative salubrious salutary sanatory sanitary stimulating sustaining tonic unadulterated unpolluted untainted useful wholesome

Antonyms

WEAK

bad corrupt diseased noxious rotten sickening unhealthful unhealthy

ADJECTIVE

good for health

Synonyms

STRONGEST

healthy wholesome

WEAK

holistic salubrious

Antonyms

STRONGEST

unhealthy

Example Sentences

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But they want us to work on improving the system to make it more healthful and sustainable and fairer to workers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

In fact, neuroimaging studies show the brains of children who eat more processed snack foods are smaller in volume, particularly in the frontal cortices, than those of children who eat a more healthful diet.

From Salon • May 28, 2024

Her attempts at more healthful eating were also thwarted by the temptation of junk food in the house that her younger siblings, who do not have obesity, love to eat.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2023

This shower head removes chlorine, heavy metals and other contaminants in shower water for more healthful hair and skin.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2023

Both conditions forced him to adopt a more healthful diet.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson