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Webster 1913 Edition


Salubrious

Sa-lu′bri-ous

,
Adj.
[L.
salubris
, or
saluber
, fr.
salus
health; akin to
salvus
safe, sound, well. See
Safe
.]
Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health;
as,
salubrious
air, water, or climate
.
Syn. – Healthful; wholesome; healthy; salutary.
Sa-lu′bri-ous-ly
,
adv.
Sa-lu′bri-ous-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Salubrious

SALU'BRIOUS

,
Adj.
[L. saluber, salubris, from salus. See safe.]
Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as salubrious air or water; a salubrious climate.

Definition 2024


salubrious

salubrious

English

Adjective

salubrious (comparative more salubrious, superlative most salubrious)

  1. Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially as related to air.
    • 2001, Francis Forster, Cockles and Mussels, iUniverse (ISBN 9780595184422), page 133
      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 that'd  ...

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  • (promoting health or well-being): healthful

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