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Salutary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.

adj. Favorable to health; wholesome: a salutary climate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.

adj. Promoting good health; wholesome; curative.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health.

adj. Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Wholesome; healthful; healing.

Promotive of or contributing to some beneficial purpose; beneficial; profitable.

Synonyms Salubrious, etc. See healthy.

Useful, advantageous, favorable.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health

Word Usage

"While government intervention often has a short-term salutary effect, making it irresistible to politicians, in the end all governments—including our own—have had to conclude that more fundamental solutions are needed to attack the root of the problem, not just the symptoms."

Equivalent

healthful

Form

salutariness salutarily

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

wholesome salubrious healthful profitable useful

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

beneficial wholesome effectual humane reasonable