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say it: HOHL-suhm
wholesome is an adjective meaning "conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being". It carries 2 recorded senses.
conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being
“wholesome attitude”
“wholesome appearance”
“wholesome food”
sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind
“exercise develops wholesome appetites”
“a grin on his ugly wholesome face”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wholesome come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.