wholesome

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈhəʊl.səm/    美 /ˈhoʊl.səm/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Promoting good physical health and well-being.
    — I prethee go, and get me ſome repaſt, I care not what, ſo it be holſome foode.
  2. Promoting moral and mental well-being.
    — Though hard, my friends, yet wholesome are the truths, taught in affliction's school, whence the pure soul rises refined, and soars above the world.
  3. Favorable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous.
    — A wholeſome tongue is a tree of life: but peruerſneſſe therein is a breach in the ſpirit.
  4. Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.
  5. Decent; innocuous; sweet.
    — Sometimes white Lyllies did their Leaves afford, With wholſom Polly-flow'rs, to mend his homely Board: […]

词形变化

more wholesome comparative wholesomer comparative most wholesome superlative wholesomest superlative holesom alternative holesome alternative wholsom alternative wholsome alternative

词汇关系

反义词
unwholesome
衍生词
wholesomely wholesomeness

词源

From earlier holesome, from Middle English holsom, holsum, helsum, halsum, from Old English *hālsum, *hǣlsum, from Proto-West Germanic *hailasam, from Proto-Germanic *hailasamaz, equivalent to whole + -some or hale (“healthy”) + -some. Cognate with Saterland Frisian heelsoam, Dutch heilzaam, German Low German heelsaam, German heilsam, Icelandic heilsamur, Norwegian Nynorsk helsesam, Swedish hälsosam (“wholesome”).
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