| Main Entry: | comforting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheering |
Synonyms: |
abating, allaying, alleviating, analeptic, assuaging, consolatory, consoling, curing, encouraging, freeing, health-giving, heart-warming, inspiriting, invigorating, lightening, mitigating, reassuring, refreshing, relieving, remedying, restoring, revitalizing, revivifying, softening, solacing, soothing, succoring, sustaining, tranquilizing, upholding, warming |
Antonyms: |
aggravating, depressing, dispiriting, distressing, disturbing, irritating, upsetting, worrying |
| 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: | nourishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthful |
Synonyms: |
alimentative, beneficial, health-giving, healthy, nutrient, nutrimental, nutritious, nutritive, wholesome |
Antonyms: |
bad, unhealthy, unwholesome |
| 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: | remedial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, restorative |
Synonyms: |
alleviative, antidotal, antiseptic, corrective, curative, curing, health-giving, healthful, invigorating, medicating, medicinal, purifying, recuperative, reformative, remedying, repairing, restitutive, sanative, sanatory, solving, soothing, therapeutic, tonic, treating, vulnerary, wholesome |
| Notes: | remediable means capable of relieving pain, curing disease, or correcting a disorder; remedial means tending or intended to rectify or improve |
Antonyms: |
damaging, harmful, hurtful, injurious |
| Main Entry: | wholesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy, decent |
Synonyms: |
all there, beneficial, clean, edifying, ethical, exemplary, fit, good, hale, health-giving, healthful, helpful, honorable, hygienic, in fine feather, in the pink, innocent, invigorating, moral, nice, normal, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, pure, respectable, restorative, right, righteous, safe, salubrious, salutary, sane, sanitary, sound, strengthening, together, virtuous, well, worthy |
Antonyms: |
bad, impure, indecent, unhealthy, unwholesome |
| Main Entry: | healthsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthful |
Synonyms: |
advantageous, aiding, aseptic, beneficial, benign, body-building, bracing, cathartic, clean, compensatory, conducive, corrective, desirable, disease-free, energy-giving, fresh, harmless, healing, health-giving, healthy, helpful, hygienic, innocuous, invig |
| Main Entry: | nutritive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to food |
Synonyms: |
alimental, alimentary, alimentative, balanced, beneficial, good, health-giving, healthful, invigorating, nourishing, nutrient, nutrimental, nutritional, nutritious, salubrious, salutary, strengthening, wholesome |