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Wholesome vs Beneficial - What's the difference?

wholesome | beneficial |

As adjectives the difference between wholesome and beneficial

is that wholesome is promoting good health and well-being while beneficial is helpful or good to something or someone.

wholesome

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Promoting good health and well-being.
  • Promoting moral and mental well-being.
  • Sound and healthy.
  • Promoting virtue or being virtuous.

    • Synonyms

    * (promoting health) healthy, healthful, salubrious

    Antonyms

    * unwholesome

    Derived terms

    * wholesomely * wholesomeness

    References

    * *

    beneficial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Helpful or good to something or someone.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial . It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}

    Synonyms

    *

    Antonyms

    * detrimental * harmful * unfavourable

    Derived terms

    * beneficial owner