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.”
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
Banker Belt Some commuter stations will be closed in the run up to Christmas through to the new year — such as Little Kimble and Monks Risborough in the Chiltern hills, a salubrious area to the west of London popular with City workers.
—Eamon Farhat, Bloomberg.com, 19 Dec. 2022
Some commuter stations will be closed in the run up to Christmas through to the new year — such as Little Kimble and Monks Risborough in the Chiltern hills, a salubrious area to the west of London popular with City workers.
—Eamon Farhat, Bloomberg.com, 19 Dec. 2022
Charting Williams’ rise from clueless teenager in British mega-boy band Take That to solo superstar, there’s no talking heads and no glossing over the less salubrious moments in Williams’ 35-year-career, including his relationships, drug-taking and depression.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
Friday also, in its salubrious dryness and absence of menacing clouds, freed us from fear of rain so fully as to encourage worry about drought.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
The two candidates to emerge from February’s nonpartisan primary, Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas, are both Democrats but offer a genuine if not necessarily salubrious choice.
—Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
Hotels near train stations are not always the most salubrious but 25 Hours Hotel is certainly an exception.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
Last year, many scientists beclowned themselves by bowing to the prevailing political pieties with their absurd assertion that taking part in protests on behalf of Black Lives Matter was literally salubrious, whereas taking part in protests against lockdowns was lethally reckless.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 7 June 2021
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“Salubrious.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salubrious. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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