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salutary

[ sal-yuh-ter-ee ]

adjective

  1. favorable to or promoting health; healthful.

    Synonyms: salubrious

  2. promoting or conducive to some beneficial purpose; wholesome.


salutary

/ -trɪ; ˈsæljʊtərɪ /

adjective

  1. promoting or intended to promote an improvement or beneficial effect

    a salutary warning

  2. promoting or intended to promote health


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Derived Forms

  • ˈsalutariness, noun
  • ˈsalutarily, adverb

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Other Words From

  • sal·u·tar·i·ly [sal, -y, uh, -ter-, uh, -lee, sal-y, uh, -, tair, -], adverb
  • salu·tari·ness noun
  • non·salu·tari·ly adverb
  • non·salu·tari·ly·ness noun
  • non·salu·tari·ness noun
  • non·salu·tary adjective
  • un·salu·tary adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of salutary1

First recorded in 1480–90; from Latin salūt(āris) ( salūt- (stem of salūs ) “health” + -āris -ar 1 ) + -ary

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Word History and Origins

Origin of salutary1

C15: from Latin salūtāris wholesome, from salūs safety

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Synonym Study

See healthy.

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Example Sentences

The Sussex’s ferocious response to such intrusions has been remarkable, and a salutary reminder to the press that Harry and Meghan will go to extreme measures to protect their children’s privacy.

Nevertheless, it is not surprising that a new generation seeks to reclaim something salutary from a shameful era.

After all, not committing fouls is a good, even salutary, thing.

The exposure from Girls surely will be salutary by getting OCD the disease out in the open.

But this salutary revolution, like so many revolutions, overstepped, and resulted in the Great Inversion.

But Cathcart also thought this was a salutary day for Fleet Street and the British Press.

This is a salutary rule of the law, which the courts everywhere do not hesitate to enforce.

I hope having a younger sister, and outgrowing baby charms may be salutary.

In spite of herself, Marguerite got accustomed to this new existence, whose salutary effects she already realized.

The Church adjudged Simone heretic, and condemned her for salutary penance to the bread of suffering and the water of affliction.

I was very much surprised to find a planet where Nature had not forgotten this salutary provision.

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