Meanings
comparative more salubrious · superlative most salubrious
- Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.
Ireland has a mild, genial and salubrious climate, I remember from my geography lessons. Salubrious, my foot! Unless you take salubrious to mean a regular downpour the whole year round, with, in between, a penetrating dampness[…]
2001, Francis Forster, Cockles and Mussels, iUniverse →ISBN, page 133Synonyms: healful, healthful, healthy, salutary · Antonyms: insalubrious, insalutary
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivePromoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivefavorable to health of mind or body
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinsalūbris“healthy”
- Englishsalubrious
From Latin salūbris (“healthy”) + -ous.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ὑγιεινός
- ὑγιεινός (hugieinós)promoting health
Bulgarian здравословен
- здравословен (zdravosloven)promoting health
Catalan salubre
- salubrepromoting health
Czech léčivý, zdraví prospěšný
- léčivýpromoting health
- zdraví prospěšnýpromoting health
Dutch heilzaam
- heilzaampromoting health
Esperanto sanfavora
- sanfavorapromoting health
Finnish terveellinen
- terveellinenpromoting health
French salubre
- salubrepromoting health
German bekömmlich, heilsam
- bekömmlichpromoting health
- heilsampromoting health
- zuträglichpromoting health
- gesundheitsförderndpromoting health
Icelandic heilsusamlegt
- heilsusamlegtpromoting health
Italian salubre
- salubrepromoting health
Latin salūber
- salūberpromoting health
Polish zdrowy, porządny
- zdrowypromoting health
- porządnypromoting health
Portuguese salubre, saudável
- salubrepromoting health
- saudávelpromoting health
Romanian salubru, sănătos
- salubrupromoting health
- sănătospromoting health
Russian целе́бный, цели́тельный
- целе́бный (celébnyj)promoting health
- цели́тельный (celítelʹnyj)promoting health
- здоро́вый (zdoróvyj)promoting health
- поле́зный (poléznyj)promoting health
Spanish salubre
- salubrepromoting health
Swedish hälsosam, frisk
- hälsosampromoting health
- friskpromoting health
Turkish sağlığa yararlı
- sağlığa yararlıpromoting health
Cite this entry
salubrious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salubrious
“salubrious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salubrious. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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