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How does the adjective salubrious contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of salubrious are healthful, salutary, and wholesome. While all these words mean "favorable to the health of mind or body," salubrious applies chiefly to the helpful effects of climate or air.

cool and salubrious weather

When might healthful be a better fit than salubrious?

The synonyms healthful and salubrious are sometimes interchangeable, but healthful implies a positive contribution to a healthy condition.

a healthful diet

When is it sensible to use salutary instead of salubrious?

Although the words salutary and salubrious have much in common, salutary describes something corrective or beneficially effective, even though it may in itself be unpleasant.

a salutary warning that resulted in increased production

When would wholesome be a good substitute for salubrious?

In some situations, the words wholesome and salubrious are roughly equivalent. However, wholesome applies to what benefits, builds up, or sustains physically, mentally, or spiritually.

wholesome foods
the movie is wholesome family entertainment

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of salubrious 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 Red cabbage is more salubrious than green cabbage due to its pigmentation, indicating the presence of anthocyanins, which are present in all plant tissues in the red to purple spectrum. Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 2 Jan. 2024 Overall, however, short-term economic indicators seem to offer a salubrious outlook for company stock performance. Bruce Brumberg, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024 His contention seems to have been borne out: research increasingly supports a salubrious effect of democratic governance. Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for salubrious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salubrious
Adjective
  • The hugging may be a personality quirk, but not doing laundry for a month suggests that there is a problem in her life – economic, emotional, mental or logistical – that’s keeping her from maintaining healthy habits.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025
  • Early detection, healthy lifestyle choices, and regular checkups can help manage both conditions and improve quality of life.
    Alexandria Nyembwe, Health, 20 July 2025
Adjective
  • Chef-owner Miguel Angel Jimenez is well worth consulting for the night’s specials and a wine from the impressively deep good list.
    John Mariani, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Heretofore, Raleigh’s best homer-hitting season was 34 in 2024.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, horehound candy tastes distinctly bittersweet and almost medicinal, due to its herby main ingredient that gets only slightly jazzed up with sugar or molasses.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 11 July 2025
  • Caligula was also convinced that his own father, Germanicus, died from poisoning, a belief that may have encouraged him to study medicinal plants in order to avoid the same fate.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • What’s not to love about a delicious and healthful version of chips and salsa?
    Bethany Thayer, Freep.com, 5 July 2025
  • That includes a fitness routine — tennis and yoga are go-to pursuits — and other healthful habits.
    Nancy Kruh, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Salubrious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salubrious. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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