The difference between Healthful and Wholesome

When used as adjectives, healthful means beneficial to bodily health, whereas wholesome means promoting good physical health and well-being.


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  1. Healthful as an adjective:

    Beneficial to bodily health.

  2. Healthful as an adjective:

    Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.

  1. Wholesome as an adjective:

    Promoting good physical health and well-being.

  2. Wholesome as an adjective:

    Promoting moral and mental well-being.

  3. Wholesome as an adjective:

    Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.

  4. Wholesome as an adjective:

    Promoting virtue or being virtuous.

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