Usually means: Promoting health, happiness, and well-being.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word wholesome:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. wholesome: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wholesome: Merriam-Webster
  3. wholesome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wholesome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wholesome: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wholesome: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wholesome, wholesome: Wordnik
  8. wholesome: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wholesome: Wiktionary
  10. wholesome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wholesome: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wholesome: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wholesome: Dictionary.com
  14. wholesome: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wholesome: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Wholesome: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wholesome: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wholesome: Rhymezone
  19. Wholesome: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wholesome: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wholesome: FreeDictionary.org
  22. wholesome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wholesome: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wholesome: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wholesome: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wholesome: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wholesome: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See wholesomely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Promoting good physical health and well-being.
adjective:  Promoting moral and mental well-being.
adjective:  Favourable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous.
adjective:  Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.
adjective:  Decent; innocuous; sweet.

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