Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Conducive or favorable to health or well-being.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Favorable to health; promoting health; wholesome: as, salubrious air.
- Synonyms Wholesome, etc. See healthy.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. favorable to health of mind or body
- adj. promoting health; healthful.
Etymologies
- From Latin salūbris, from salūs, health; see sol- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“If the project were titled a salubrious version of "Ongoing Portrait of the North American Male"?”
“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.”
“When the Land Commissioners contemplated this "salubrious" region, their hearts must have melted with generosity, for whereas in our own healthy part of South”
“A GLANCE down St Catherines Drive and the sight of "salubrious" homes fails to tell the street's true story.”
“salubrious" rhyme in the Mary Jane Hot-Cha.deadsongs. vue.220”
“If it doesn't, is it all that useful to educate men or women about its salubrious effects?”
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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.”
“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.”
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“Perhaps we ought to be policing weddings where those being joined in matrimony hail from our cities' less salubrious neighbourhoods.”
“Jopling, now 48, set up his first gallery in London in 1993 in salubrious St James's.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘salubrious’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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my fab list
blowsabella, aperçu, froideur, salubrious, abject, gallipot, mumchance, wainscot, virago, macerate, lascivious, clandestine and 181 more...
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 2 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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Words to describe behavior
aberrant, hubris, calumny, sequester, ebullient, malfeasance, salubrious, foible, mercurial, laconic, fugacity, recalcitrant and 7 more...
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Actual Words
I checked, because I wasn't sure, but these words were coined and entered into a dictionary before I thought them up.
dishevelment, commoditize, feck, foppery, grimoire, apposite, impassible, reparable, arithmomania, patois, absquatulate, scopperil and 8 more...
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In support
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GRE Hard Vocabularies
Revised GRE unfamiliar words
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new/spelling list
new readings
extrapilate, allegorical, heretic, abatement, mercurical, salubrious, narcisstic, muse
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GREs
supplicate, insidious, hermeneutic, salubrious, perfidious, opprobrium, obviate, vitiate
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words i should know
perspicacity, salubrious, eponymous, exigent, logolepsy, palindrome
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New to Me
anodyne, salient, ecumenical, salubrious, invective, incendiary, colophon, stola, druthers, syllogism
kingparton 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" Nov 23, 2011
malechi "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 Dec 7, 2008