WHOLESOME, adjective [G.] 1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; as wholesome air or diet; a wholesome climate. 2. Sound; contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion or prosperity; as wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths. 3. Useful; salutary; conducive to public happiness, virtue or peace; as a wholesome law. 4. That utters sound words. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. Proverbs 15:4. 5. Kindly; pleasing; as a wholesome answer. WHOLESOME ship, a ship that will try, hull and ride well.
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