salubrious

sa·lu·bri·ous

(sə-lo͞o′brē-əs)

adj.

Conducive or favorable to health or well-being.

[From Latin salūbris, from salūs, health; see sol- in Indo-European roots.]

sa·lu′bri·ous·ly adv.

sa·lu′bri·ous·ness, sa·lu′bri·ty (-brĭ-tē) n.

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salubrious

(səˈluːbrɪəs)

adj

conducive or favourable to health; wholesome

[C16: from Latin salūbris, from salūs health]

saˈlubriously adv

saˈlubriousness, salubrity n

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sa•lu•bri•ous

(səˈlu bri əs)

adj.

favorable to or promoting health; healthful.

[1540–50; < Latin salūbr(is) (akin to salūs health)]

sa•lu′bri•ous•ly, adv.

sa•lu′bri•ous•ness, sa•lu′bri•ty (-brɪ ti) n.

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Adj.	1.	salubrious - promoting health; healthful; "a healthy diet"; "clean healthy air"; "plenty of healthy sleep"; "healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy"; "the salubrious mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis; "carrots are good for you" good for you, healthy wholesome - conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"
	2.	salubrious - favorable to health of mind or body; "not the most salubrious campsite"; "one of the less salubrious suburbs" wholesome - conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"

salubrious

adjective

1. healthy, beneficial, good for you, wholesome, invigorating, salutary, healthful, health-giving your salubrious lochside hotel

2. agreeable, respectable, grand, pleasant, nice, posh (informal), luxurious, classy, upmarket, high-class, glitzy, swanky London's less salubrious quarters

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salubrious

adjective

Promoting good health:

healthful, healthsome, healthy, hygienic, salutary, wholesome.

Translations

salubre

salubre salubrit...

salubrious

[səˈluːbrɪəs] ADJ (frm) (= healthy) → saludable, salubre (fig) (= desirable, pleasant) [district etc] → salubre

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

salubrious

[səˈluːbriəs] adj [place] → salubre

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salubrious

adj

(form) air, climate → gesund

(inf) district, friends → ersprießlich; not a very salubrious pub → eine recht zweifelhafte Kneipe

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salubrious

[səˈluːbrɪəs] (frm) adj → salubre (fig) (district) → raccomandabile

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sa·lu·bri·ous

a. salubre, saludable.

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Don't know anything about the north, but am altogether salubrious and balmy, hey, my lady?"

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Only a few scattered huts could be seen through the pestilential mists; but the appearance of the country soon changed, for it often happens in Africa that some of the unhealthiest districts lie close beside others that are perfectly salubrious.

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We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.

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The climate was salubrious, the soil fertile, the rivers well stocked with fish, the natives peaceable and friendly.

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The atmosphere down here may be salubrious, but I am unaccustomed to it."

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Harthouse gave him to understand as they shook hands, for the salubrious air of Coketown.

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"All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle.

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A cool, reviving breeze blew from the sea - soft, pure, salubrious: it waved her drooping ringlets, and imparted a livelier colour to her usually too pallid lip and cheek.

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His features were pretty yet, and his eye and complexion brighter than I remembered them, though with merely temporary lustre borrowed from the salubrious air and genial sun.

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If it appeared that he had spoken truly, the captain could be turned out of the house without noising the matter abroad, and they could easily account to the Porkenhams for his disappearance, by saying that he had been appointed, through the Court influence of his family, to the governor- generalship of Sierra Leone, of Saugur Point, or any other of those salubrious climates which enchant Europeans so much, that when they once get there, they can hardly ever prevail upon themselves to come back again.

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AT least with Serena Williams and Andy Murray happily married, forming mixed doubles partnerships seems a more salubrious process than it once was.

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Three types of investigations were done to see if magnetism was salubrious per se: