| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Tending or serving to heal; healing.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb healfully.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (healfully) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective healful.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HEALFUL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Note: Healful \Heal"ful\, adjective. Tending or serving to heal; healing. [obsolete]. (references) |
