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salubrious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

salubrious (comparative more salubrious, superlative most salubrious)

• Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.
  • ✤ Synonyms: healful, healthful, healthy, salutary
  • ✤ Antonyms: insalubrious, insalutary
  • ✤ 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 […]¹

Etymology

From Latin salūbris (“healthy”) +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /səˈl(j)uː.bɹi.əs/²
• (US) enPR: sə-lo͞o’brē-əs, IPA: /səˈlu.bɹi.əs/
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Footnotes

1. 2001, Francis Forster, Cockles and Mussels, iUniverse →ISBN, page 133: ↩

2. The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003 ↩

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