different between heal vs healthful
heal
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hi?l/
- Rhymes: -i?l
- Homophones: heel, he'll, hill (in some accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle English helen, from Old English h?lan (“to heal, cure, save, greet, salute”), from Proto-Germanic *hailijan? (“to heal, make whole, save”), from Proto-Indo-European *koyl- (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Scots hale, hail (“to heal”), Saterland Frisian heila, heilen (“to heal”), West Frisian hielje, Dutch helen (“to heal”), German heilen (“to heal”), Danish hele, Swedish hela (“to heal”). More at whole.
Verb
heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healing, simple past and past participle healed)
- (transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
- This bandage will heal your cut.
- Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
- (intransitive) To become better or healthy again.
- Bandages allow cuts to heal.
- To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
- to heal dissensions
Synonyms
- (make better): cure, make whole
- (become better): get better, recover
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
heal (countable and uncountable, plural heals)
- (role-playing games, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
- 2004, Computer Gaming World (volumes 234-237, page 81)
- Also, various interesting spells have been added—for instance, with the Orb spell, you can circle a character, firing offensive bolts or casting heals, and free up a mage-type to cast other spells or even melee.
- 2009, Paul Emmerich, Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons (page 351)
- The following macro checks whether our current target is friendly and casts a heal on it if so; otherwise it casts the heal on the target's target […]
- 2012, Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire, Sasha Barab, Games, Learning, and Society
- Synner, a priest walking by, sees her struggling and casts a heal on her.
- 2004, Computer Gaming World (volumes 234-237, page 81)
- (obsolete, uncountable) health
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Etymology 2
See hele.
Verb
heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healing, simple past and past participle healed)
- (rare) Alternative form of hele (“conceal”).
- 1907, John. H. Brownell, Arthur Maurice Smith, Joseph E. Morcombe, The American Tyler-Keystone: Devoted to Freemasonry, page 6:
- "Heal, conceal and keep secret."
- 1998, Clive Richardson, The Horse Breakers, page 212:
- 'I swear before God and all these witnesses that I will always heal, conceal and never reveal any art or part of this secret of horsemanry which is to be revealed to me at this time or any other time hereafter.'
- 2015, Lee Morgan, The Bones Would Do: Book Two of the Christopher Penrose Novels:
- The man in black asked Christopher for the secret passwords he'd been given and he answered correctly. As soon as he had, Christopher felt the point of a blade at his throat. “Do you swear to heal, conceal and never reveal the secrets of the witching arts for all your days […] ?"
- 1907, John. H. Brownell, Arthur Maurice Smith, Joseph E. Morcombe, The American Tyler-Keystone: Devoted to Freemasonry, page 6:
Anagrams
- Aleh, Hale, Hela, Leah, hale
Estonian
Adjective
heal
- adessive singular of hea
Scots
Noun
heal (uncountable)
- (obsolete) health
References
- “heal” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian half, from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h???l/
Adjective
heal
- half
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “heal”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola
Noun
heal
- Alternative form of heale
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healthful
English
Alternative forms
- healthfull (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English helthful, helþful, helþeful, equivalent to health +? -ful.
Adjective
healthful (comparative healthfuller or more healthful, superlative healthfullest or most healthful)
- Beneficial to bodily health.
- 1906, Princeton Alumni Weekly (volume 7, page 210)
- Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students […]
- 1906, Princeton Alumni Weekly (volume 7, page 210)
- Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.
- 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society 2008, p. 30:
- As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.
- 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society 2008, p. 30:
Synonyms
- healthy
- salubrious
- salutary
- wholesome
Usage notes
When a clearer distinction is intended, healthy is used to describe the state of the object, and healthful describes its ability to impart health to the recipient. Vegetables in good condition are both healthy (i.e., not rotten or diseased) and healthful (i.e., they improve the eaters' health, compared to eating junk food). By contrast, a poisonous plant can be healthy, but it is not healthful to eat of.
Derived terms
- healthfully
- healthfulness
Related terms
- heal
- health
- healthy
Translations
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