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Restorative vs Healthful - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between restorative and healthful

is that restorative is serving to restore while healthful is beneficial to health of body or mind.

As a noun restorative

is something with restoring properties.

restorative

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something with restoring properties.
  • (euphemistic) An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.
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    • References

    * OED2

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Serving to restore.
    • After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.
  • * Milton
    • Destroys life's enemy, / Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.

    Anagrams

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    healthful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * healthfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Beneficial to health of body or mind.

    • Synonyms

    * healthy * salubrious * salutary

    Derived terms

    * healthfully * healthfulness

    Related terms

    * heal * health * healthy