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salubrious

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin salūbris (healthy) +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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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

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  • (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  ...
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Translations

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References

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