Salubrious

//səˈlu.bɹi.əs// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.

    "Ireland has a mild, genial and salubrious climate, I remember from my geography lessons. Salubrious, my foot! Unless you take salubrious to mean a regular downpour the whole year round, with, in between, a penetrating dampness[…]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    promoting health; healthful wordnet
  2. 2
    favorable to health of mind or body wordnet

Synonyms

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healthfulwholesomebeneficialbenignbracingconstitutional

Example

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"Tom had to move to a less salubrious neighbourhood."

Etymology

From Latin salūbris (“healthy”) + -ous.

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