SALUBRIOUS | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of salubrious in English

(Definition of salubrious from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of salubrious

salubrious
Does the party somehow manage to juggle a sporting life and his salubrious appetite for alcohol?
From NPR
They didn't deliberately malign chicken legs; they simply wholeheartedly extolled the salubrious qualities of breast meat.
These rather salubrious details, however, mask a situation more worrisome than these numbers would have us believe.
From CNBC
Those who refuse to get into the spirit will be expelled back to the less salubrious environs of the prison system proper.
At the same time, gardens may have less salubrious effects on urban systems and populations.
Such societal transformations and novel practices gave rise to modern notions of temporality that projected a salubrious and disease-free national horizon of expectation.
In some cases, people simply steered clear of swampy terrain and settling in areas that appeared to be relatively salubrious.
Whether this salubrious effect of amrinone on cardiac output is due more to the former than the latter is yet unknown.
Nor, had he not been distracted by baser objects, would he have failed utterly to discover the salubrious fountains which he sought.
Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
The shore attracted him, with its harbors and salubrious, restful air, but he was anxious to get into the open sea.
Its salubrious strength penetrated her emaciated body, bestowing on it an incomprehensible force.
This country is salubrious and has a good climate.
There were a few thousand inhabitants of mixed race, and the tropical climate, though moist and enervating, is fairly salubrious.
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Translations of salubrious

in Chinese (Traditional)
(地方)環境宜人且有益健康的,宜居的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(地方)环境宜人且有益健康的,宜居的…
in Spanish
salubre, agradable…
in Portuguese
salubre, agradável…
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