Etymology

healful

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Today it means: Tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing. Full definition →

Middle English heeleful
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromheeleful
  2. English todayhealful

From Middle English heeleful, heleful, equivalent to heal (“health, well-being”) + -ful. Compare healless.

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