salubrious

[ suh-loo-bree-uhs ]

adjective

1. favorable to or promoting health; healthful:

   salubrious air.

salubrious

/ səˈluːbrɪtɪ; səˈluːbrɪəs /

adjective

1. conducive or favourable to health; wholesome

Derived Forms

• saˈlubriously, adverb
• saˈlubriousness, noun

Other Words From

• sa·lubri·ous·ly adverb
• sa·lubri·ous·ess sa·lu·bri·ty [s, uh, -, loo, -bri-tee], noun
• nonsa·lubri·ous adjective
• nonsa·lubri·ous·ly adverb
• nonsa·lubri·ous·ness noun
• unsa·lubri·ous adjective
• unsa·lubri·ous·ly adverb
• unsa·lubri·ous·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of salubrious¹

1540–50; from Latin salūbr(is) “promoting health” (akin to salūs “health”) + -ious

Word History and Origins

Origin of salubrious¹

C16: from Latin salūbris, from salūs health

Synonym Study

See healthy.

Example Sentences

Having grown fearful for their own safety in a once salubrious area that was now rife with crime, they became reclusive, amended their wills, arranged for their dog to be put down and for his ashes to spread on their grave.

From BBC

“You get a very scientific penitentiary in a very cold region that they believe to be salubrious.”

From Los Angeles Times

If it weren’t for the war, a more salubrious place to do science would be hard to imagine.

From Science Magazine

Yet the study also found that during that period the shuttering of coal plants in the United State, coupled with the installation of scrubbers in the smokestacks to “clean” coal exhaust, has had salubrious effects.

From New York Times

Before Sylvie can surrender to that salubrious melody everything around her turns to noodles, a fate Loki realizes can only be avoided by rewriting the story, and maybe that's a coded message from the writers to their overextended bosses.

From Salon