salutary
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7.6
- adjective
- /ˈsæl.juˌtɛr.i/
- Formal
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salutario
- Exercising regularly can have a salutary effect on your overall health.
- salutary effect
- salutary reminder
- salutary corrective
And I think it's, as I said, the salutary reminder of the cost of having independent judiciaries.
- And I think it's, as I said, the salutary reminder of the cost of having independent judiciaries.
- But I mean, I mean, just was many, many, many things have realigned in ways that I think are very salutary.
- Would be all that strong salutary, right, The the good effect, the positive ones.
- OK, so there's a salutary reminder of who I am, why I'm there and who I'm living as.
Examples
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Change not only is a fact of life; it often is a salutary one.
Academic text (1995) -
Churches built by medieval rulers constituted a visible and salutary legacy for the descendants of their former subjects.
Academic text (1999) -
History offers us a salutary reminder that part of faith is doubt.
Academic text (1992) -
Over the years, when my luck at the gaming tables has been... less than salutary, you have always come to my rescue.
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What if later research contradicts the data that support the salutary effects of marriage?
Academic text (2011) -
Hardly anything in intellectual life can be more salutary than the separation of fashion from fact.
Academic text (1997) -
Judicious self-examination is salutary for both individuals and traditions.
Academic text (2015) -
In the passage above, Tocqueville speaks of the salutary role that an enlightened monarch can play.
Academic text (1996) -
Even reforms intended to reduce the use of moedas podres had salutary effects on the overall course of privatization.
Academic text (1998) -
Identifying and reinstituting such salutary practices may assist clients on their journey toward wellness (Saleebey, 2009).
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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1.0
Helping your health and making you feel well
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3.4
Making something better or producing a good result
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5.2
Helping a person feel better physically or mentally
27
3.5
Helping you get a better result
3
8.3
Good for your health, like clean air and parks
1
8.9
That helps make a situation better
Antonyms
How Helpful
Surface Forms
Morphology
salutary = salut + ary
The adjectival suffix -ary attaches to the Latin combining form 'salut-' which is not a standalone or productive English base, so the meaning 'beneficial' is not transparently derivable by average learners (and may be confused with the unrelated English word 'salute').
Etymology
The word salutary comes from the Latin root salus, which means 'health' or 'well-being'. It shares this root with salute, a word that once meant 'I wish you health', so salutary describes something that is 'health-giving' or helpful after something unpleasant.