SALUBRIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salubrious mean? 

• SALUBRIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective SALUBRIOUS has 2 senses:

1. promoting health; healthful

2. favorable to health of mind or body

  Familiarity information: SALUBRIOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALUBRIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Promoting health; healthful

Synonyms:

good for you; healthy; salubrious

Context example:

carrots are good for you

Similar:

wholesome (conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being)

Derivation:

salubriousness; salubrity (the quality of being salubrious and invigorating)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Favorable to health of mind or body

Context example:

one of the less salubrious suburbs

Similar:

wholesome (conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being)

Derivation:

salubrity (the quality of being salubrious and invigorating)

 Context examples 

Don't know anything about the north, but am altogether salubrious and balmy, hey, my lady?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)