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
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Examples
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If the project were titled a salubrious version of "Ongoing Portrait of the North American Male"?
A Big Question The Year in Pictures 2008
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I must use the good word "salubrious" ... there is nothing like putting in a word for one's own home district ... that it drew all the addicts of the country to Vancouver.
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When the Land Commissioners contemplated this "salubrious" region, their hearts must have melted with generosity, for whereas in our own healthy part of South
Chapter XXIV Solomon Tshekisho 1916
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A GLANCE down St Catherines Drive and the sight of "salubrious" homes fails to tell the street's true story.
Star News Group 2010
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"salubrious" rhyme in the Mary Jane Hot-Cha.deadsongs. vue.220
The WELL: West L.A. Fadeaway Robert Hunter 2006
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Yet, the elements of market competition that still manage to survive have had the salubrious effect of driving medical innovation and improving patient health outcomes.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » And We’ll Never Know What We Are Missing 2009
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Perhaps we ought to be policing weddings where those being joined in matrimony hail from our cities' less salubrious neighbourhoods.
Offensive? Our lawmakers' decision to target Scottish football fans certainly is | Kevin McKenna 2011
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Jopling, now 48, set up his first gallery in London in 1993 in salubrious St James's.
Jay Jopling: portrait of the perfect gallerist | profile 2011
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If it doesn't, is it all that useful to educate men or women about its salubrious effects?
WomenTALK 2011 Survey on Sex: What We Want Isn't What We Get 2011
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As Nick Faldo, now CBS 'lead golf analyst, said in 1995 at Palmer's last British Open: If there had been no Arnold Palmer in 1960, (this) might have been a little shed on the beach instead of these salubrious surroundings.
malechi commented on the word salubrious
"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
kingparton commented on the word salubrious
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
riander commented on the word salubrious
“(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