healthful

Other forms of healthful

comparative

healthfuller·

superlative

healthfullest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about healthful

What does healthful mean?

healthful means "conducive to good health of body or mind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in healthful?

healthful has 2 syllables: health-ful. The stress falls on "health". In IPA it is /ˈhɛlθfəl/.

What is another word for healthful?

Close synonyms include sanitary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of healthful?

The recorded antonyms are unhealthful.

Is healthful a common word?

healthful is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with healthful?

1 word rhymes with healthful. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.