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 salus ("health") (Wiktionary)
- From Latin salūbris, from salūs, health; see sol- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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allover
reintegrate, spight, surveillant, harmonize, Colophon, workplace, bigoted, unsighted, bridgework, salutation, voltmeter, octane and 159 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 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 238 more...
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 297 more...
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Used
halcyon, ineluctable, inspissated, incarnadine, askance, demur, saltation, requisite, effusive, specious, liminality, indomitable and 114 more...
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Ballardian
All things descriptive from JG
Ballardoperation mindfuck, pataphysics, wahrheitssensible..., polymorphism, postprandial, covalent, stygian, lucus a non lucendo, kafkaesque, leitmotif, fugacious, ablate and 77 more...
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New to Me
anodyne, salient, ecumenical, salubrious, invective, incendiary, colophon, stola, druthers, syllogism, geodesic, quant and 16 more...
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GRE Practice
coruscate, preternatural, preclude, retrench, perfidy, sophistry, sedulous, martinet, churlish, dissembler, prevarication, impugn and 38 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 18 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1834 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
tatterdemalion, panopticon, idioglossia, hypnagogue, hypnopomp, defenestration, anacoluthon, scofflaw, affront, edifying, palimpsest, naufrage and 475 more...
Tweets
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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