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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy |
| Synonyms: | aiding, beneficial, fit, good, healing, healthful, nourishing, nutritious, restorative, salubrious, sound, tonic, well, wholesome |
yəˌtɛr| Main Entry: | beneficial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous |
| Synonyms: | benign, constructive, favorable, favoring, gainful, good, good for what ails you, healthful, helpful, profitable, propitious, salubrious, salutary, serviceable, toward, useful, valuable, what the doctor ordered, wholesome, worthy |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, harmful, hurting, unfortunate, unhelpful, unrewarding |
| Main Entry: | benign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous |
| Synonyms: | auspicious, beneficent, benevolent, bright, charitable, dexter, encouraging, favorable, fortunate, good, lucky, merciful, propitious, salutary, smiling |
| Notes: | benign refers to a trait or characteristic; benignant to a tendency or disposition |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, harmful, hurtful |
| Main Entry: | curative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, health-giving |
| Synonyms: | alleviative, beneficial, corrective, curing, healthful, helpful, invigorating, medicable, medicative, medicinal, pick-me-up, remedial, remedying, restorative, salutary, sanative, shot in the arm, therapeutic, tonic, vulnerary, what the doctor ordered, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | harmful, hurting, injurious, painful |
| Main Entry: | good |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | useful, adequate |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, advantageous, all right, ample, appropriate, approving, apt, auspicious, becoming, benefic, beneficial, benignant, brave, commendatory, commending, common, conformable, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, favorable, favoring, fit, fitting, fruitful, healthful, healthy, helpful, hygienic, meet, needed, opportune, profitable, proper, propitious, respectable, right, salubrious, salutary, satisfying, seemly, serviceable, suitable, tolerable, toward, unobjectionable, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | inadequate, rotten, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | healthful/healthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good for one's wellness |
| Synonyms: | 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: | bad, corrupt, diseased, noxious, rotten, sickening, unhealthful, unhealthy |
| Main Entry: | hygienic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean |
| Synonyms: | aseptic, disinfected, germ-free, good, healthful, healthy, pure, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, sanitary, sterile, uncontaminated, uninfected, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | contaminated, dirty, diseased, filthy, foul, infected, unclean, unpure, unsanitary, unsterile |
| Main Entry: | nutritious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy |
| Synonyms: | alimental, alimentative, balanced, beneficial, good, health-giving, healthful, invigorating, nourishing, nutrient, nutrimental, nutritive, salubrious, salutary, strengthening, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | bad, insubstantial, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome |
| Main Entry: | salubrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | health-giving |
| Synonyms: | beneficial, good, healthful, healthy, hygienic, invigorating, salutary, sanitary, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome |
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