Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Conducive or favorable to health or well-being.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Favorable to health; promoting health; wholesome: as, salubrious air.
  • Synonyms Wholesome, etc. See healthy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Promoting health or well-being; wholesome. Especially related to air.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective favorable to health of mind or body
  • adjective promoting health; healthful

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin salūbris, from salūs, health; see sol- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin salus ("health")

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  • "You'd better be. If he loses his temper and throws us off the case, we're going to have to start looking for new premises in a less salubrious part of town."

    "I didn't think there was a less salubrious part of town."

    "My point exactly."

    --Alastair Reynolds, Century Rain

    December 8, 2008

  • There is a hell; but its climate has undergone such a change in the last one hundred years that it may be called salubrious. In fact, it has been so modified in every respect that it is difficult to say what it is.

    Ambrose Bierce, "The Follies of Religion"

    November 23, 2011

  • “(San Gregorio House) is located ten miles south of Half Moon Bay, situated in one of the most beautiful of the coast valleys being very near the ocean with a salubrious climate and no summer winds.” (from a historic marker)

    July 4, 2017