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salutary Definition

salu·tary (salyo̵o ter′ē)

adjective

  1. promoting or conducive to health; healthful
  2. promoting or conducive to some good purpose; beneficial

Etymology: < Fr or L: Fr salutaire < L salutaris < salus (gen. salutis), health: see safe

salutary Related Forms

salu·tar′i·ly adverb salu·tar′i·ness noun

salutary Synonyms

salutary

modif.

  1. Healthful

    salubrious, healthy, wholesome, good, nutritious, health-giving; see also healthful.

  2. Beneficial

    tonic, helpful, remedial, bracing, advantageous, curative, restorative, invigorating; see also helpful 1.

salutary Usage Examples

Preposition: in

  • respect: The example of the West Coast Main Line upgrade is salutary in this respect, both in terms of cost and coordination.
  • condition: The skin of birch, worn inside the shoes, promotes a perspiration that can prove salutary in various chronic conditions.

Infinitive complement

  • remember: It's salutary to remember that the vast majority of stolen antiques the police recover are never claimed.
  • think: It is salutary to think what £ 1 million would buy 100 years ago.
  • see: It is very salutary always to see the other side of the question!
  • reflect: It is salutary to reflect that a multinational company would have ' sweated ' ( realized ) this hidden leverage capital years ago.
  • remind: It would be salutary to remind ourselves of the story so far.
  • compare: It is salutary to compare the attention paid to teaching BSL to deaf pupils with that paid to teaching English to hearing pupils.

Modifies a noun

  • reminder: The whole episode was a salutary reminder of the dangers of the ' incident pit ' .
  • lesson: For each of us, the dive was a salutary lesson.
  • tale: Sunday 21st April Go Back to top 1. A salutary tale!
  • shock: It was argued that printing the words might give a salutary shock to skeptical readers.
  • effect: The salutary effects of reciting this teaching are also described ( paras.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: Very salutary is an occasional hour of serene sadness, indeed a good agony will sometimes yield a grand harvest.
  • also: Furthermore, the survival of cheese from the same deposit was also salutary.
  • so: The effect of all this was so salutary that even now the faith is persisting intact in those parts.
  • however: It is however salutary to remember the genuine need for originality in the creation of a copyright protectable database within the Directive.

Used with adjective complement

prove: The skin of birch, worn inside the shoes, promotes a perspiration that can prove salutary in various chronic conditions.

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