Usually means: Promoting health, happiness, and well-being.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word wholesome:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. wholesome: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wholesome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wholesome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wholesome: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wholesome: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wholesome, wholesome: Wordnik
  7. wholesome: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wholesome: Wiktionary
  9. wholesome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wholesome: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wholesome: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wholesome: Dictionary.com
  13. wholesome: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wholesome: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wholesome: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. wholesome: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. wholesome: Rhymezone
  18. Wholesome: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. wholesome: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. wholesome: Free Dictionary
  21. wholesome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. wholesome: Dictionary/thesaurus

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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