salubrious

English

WOTD – 16 July 2006

Etymology

From Latin salūbris (healthy) + -ous.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /səˈl(j)uː.bɹi.əs/[1]
  • (US) enPR: sə-lo͞o'brē-əs, IPA(key): /səˈlu.bɹi.əs/
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Adjective

salubrious (comparative more salubrious, superlative most salubrious)

  1. Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.
    Synonyms: healful, healthful, healthy, salutary
    Antonyms: insalubrious, insalutary

Quotations

  • (2001, Francis Forster, Cockles and Mussels, iUniverse →ISBN, 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  ...

Translations

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References

  1. The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
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