"healthful" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: healthfuller [comparative], more healthful [comparative], healthfullest [superlative], most healthful [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English helthful, helþful, helþeful, equivalent to health + -ful. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|helthful}} Middle English helthful, {{m|enm|helþful}} helþful, {{m|enm|helþeful}} helþeful, {{suf|en|health|ful|pos=adjective}} health + -ful Head templates: {{en-adj|healthfuller|more}} healthful (comparative healthfuller or more healthful, superlative healthfullest or most healthful)
  1. Beneficial to bodily health. Translations (beneficial to health): здравословен (zdravosloven) (Bulgarian), 健康 (jiànkāng) (Chinese Mandarin), zdravý (Czech), gezond (Dutch), terveellinen (Finnish), sain (French), saudable (Galician), san (Galician), gesund (German), υγιεινός (ygieinós) (Greek), 健康的な (kenkōteki na) (alt: けんこうてきな) (Japanese), sanus (Latin), veselīgs (Latvian), sveikas (Lithuanian), sveikatingas (Lithuanian), здрав (zdrav) (Macedonian), hrisël (Mizo), zdrowy (Polish), saudável (Portuguese), здоро́вый (zdoróvyj) (Russian), поле́зный (poléznyj) (Russian), здра̏в [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), zdrȁv [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), zdrav (Slovene), saludable (Spanish), sano (Spanish), salutífero (Spanish), iachusol (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-healthful-en-adj-PqojR0kp Disambiguation of 'beneficial to health': 68 6 26
  2. Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.
    Sense id: en-healthful-en-adj-0IUZjrKW Categories (other): English adjectives suffixed with -ful, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English adjectives suffixed with -ful: 19 48 33 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 53 44
  3. (archaic) Synonym of healthy (“evincing health”) Tags: archaic Synonyms: healthy [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-healthful-en-adj-9ZxIU5tm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 53 44
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: healthy, salubrious, salutary, wholesome, healthfull [archaic] Derived forms: healthfully, healthfulness Related terms: heal, health, healthy

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.