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INSALUBRIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does insalubrious mean?
• INSALUBRIOUS (adjective)
The adjective INSALUBRIOUS has 1 sense:
1. detrimental to health
Familiarity information: INSALUBRIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Detrimental to health
Synonyms:
insalubrious; unhealthful; unhealthy
Similar:
unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)
Derivation:
insalubriousness; insalubrity (the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating)
Context examples
He would have let the house, but could find no tenant, in consequence of its ineligible and insalubrious site.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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