wholesome UK /ˈhəʊl.səm/US /ˈhoʊl.səm/ adjective5 •Promoting good physical health and well-being.I prethee go, and get me some repast, I care not what, so it be holsome foode. — 1590 •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. — 1750 •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. — 1611 •Decent; innocuous; sweet.Sometimes white Lyllies did their Leaves afford, With wholsom Polly-flow'rs, to mend his homely Board: […] — 1697 •Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy. formsmore wholesome · wholesomer · most wholesome · wholesomest