insalubrious

Examples

• All

• Eventually, the municipal authorities would fill in the streets and, later, the interior of the poorly drained, insalubrious blocks that they enclosed.

  Academic text (1991)

• The Bathroom Series, in particular, transforms hygienic tiled rooms into insalubrious breeding grounds.

  Academic text (1999)

• This comment had the insalubrious effect of ending all conversation for the space of several minutes.

  Fiction book (1995)

• True, it had been insalubrious for as long as anyone could remember, but it was historic.

  Academic text (2004)

• The racial characteristics of Mexicans were also thought to be insalubrious for democratic governance.

  Academic text (2002)

• Poussin may have preferred topographical specificity, but given his delicate health, he would have been ill-advised to visit any such insalubrious clime.

  Academic text (2004)

• Why is it proper for the government to prohibit insalubrious foods but not sadistic movies, to control the pollution of the environment but not of the culture, to prevent racial segregation but not moral degradation?

  Academic text (1993)

• Finally, Zabet admits that there was a little girl in the Beaurepas clan, but when she died on the insalubrious passage to New Orleans, Zabet inserted her own grandson in the child's place, making him the fifth Beaurepas cousin.

  Academic text (2018)

• The air in the abandoned factory was insalubrious, making it unsafe for anyone to enter.

• Living in that insalubrious environment affected her health significantly over the years.

Synonyms

U

unhealthy

vsinsalubrious

117 1.6

Not good for your health and likely to cause illness

is more often used for places that harm health rather than general states

U

unwholesome

vsinsalubrious

4 6.3

Harmful to health or to how someone behaves

focuses on physical health harm rather than moral or character issues

U

unhealthful

vsinsalubrious

1 4.8

Harmful to your health and likely to make you sick

is specific to places or environments that make people likely to become ill

I

insanitary

vsinsalubrious

1 6.9

Dirty and likely to cause disease

is broader, meaning harmful to health not only due to dirt or cleanliness

Antonyms

H

healthy

695 1.0

In good body and mind condition without sickness or injury

S

salubrious

• Formal

3 8.3

Good for your health, like clean air and parks

How Healthy

salubrious

• Formal

3 8.3

healthy

695 1.0

unhealthy

117 1.6

unsanitary

16 3.7

insalubrious

• Formal

9.9

noxious

19 7.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology