Salutary
['sæljʊt(ə)rɪ] or ['sæljə'tɛri]
Definition
(a.) Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.
(a.) Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.
Edited by Joanne
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Healthy, healthful, salubrious, wholesome, salutiferous, helpful.[2]. Advantageous, beneficial, serviceable, good.
Editor: Manuel
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See HEALTHY]
Typist: Rowland
Definition
adj. belonging to health: promoting health or safety: wholesome: beneficial.—n. Salūdador′ (obs.) a quack who cures by incantations.—adv. Sal′ūtarily in a salutary manner: favourably to health.—n. Sal′ūtariness.—adj. Salūtif′erous health-bearing.—adv. Salūtif′erously.
Editor: Percival
Examples
- A salutary moral depression would be the effect. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Possibly the leaders would travel too fast and too far on the road to perfection if conservatism did not also play its salutary part in insisting that the procession move forward as a whole. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is only by degrees that the great body of mankind can be led into new practices, however salutary their tendency. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Editor: Percival