salubrious
adjective
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Salubrious, like healthful and wholesome, describes things that are favorable to the health of the mind or body. (A rather formal and somewhat rare word, it is related by its Latin ancestor salubris to the very common English word safe.) Unlike healthful and wholesome, salubrious tends to apply chiefly to the helpful effects of climate or air, as in “the salubrious climate of the tropical island.” Salubrious seems to be expanding semantically; we occasionally see evidence of it being used as a descriptor of prosperous people or locales. This is the sense used by British author Zadie Smith in her 2023 historical novel The Fraud when she writes: “Following the more salubrious element of the crowd, they found themselves on the second floor of Lady Blessington’s Old Gore House, recently converted into a restaurant by Alexis Soyer.”
Examples of salubrious in a Sentence
C. Christine Fair, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2018
Los Angeles Rams → Chelsea With the respective lures of Los Angeles and salubrious west London, both these clubs have a big market feel.
—Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
Less salubrious was Mahler-Werfel’s own political evolution in the twenties and thirties.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
California’s salubrious climate, vigorous, entrepreneurial economy and guarantee of reproductive healthcare rights didn’t avert a population decline earlier in this decade.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
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“Salubrious.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salubrious. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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