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Definition: Salutary |
SalutaryAdjective1. Tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health; "beneficial effects of a balanced diet"; "a good night's sleep"; "the salutary influence of pure air". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "salutary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Etymology: Salutary \Sal"u*ta*ry\, adjective. [Latin expression salutaris, from salus, -utis, health, safety: compare to the French expression salutaire. See Salubrious.]. (references) |
Synonyms: SalutarySynonyms: beneficial (adj), good (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpedience | Beneficial, valuable, of value; serviceable; (useful); advantageous, edifying, profitable; salutary; (healthful). |
Remedy | Adjective: remedial; restorative; corrective, palliative, healing; sanatory, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous; (salutary); medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical, epulotic, paregoric, tonic, corroborant, analeptic, balsamic, anodyne, hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, emollient; depuratory; detersive, detergent; abstersive, disinfectant, febrifugal, alterative; traumatic, vulnerary. |
Salubrity | Adjective: salubrious, salutary, salutiferous; wholesome; healthy, healthful; sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious; hygeian, hygienic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Salutary |
| English words defined with "salutary": beneficial ♦ good ♦ Insalutary ♦ Salutiferous. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "salutary": Insalutary. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Salutary Lesson (1910) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Wordsworth | Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The possible salutary effects on family and job stability should be explained thoroughly, and the known serious and troublesome side effects of each drug under consideration should be made clear. (references) | |
Business | This indeed would not only give the industry a wider marketing base but also would have a salutary effect on the vendor industries. (references) | |
Political Economy | Benin | Further, and despite problems in the West African region, there is no indication that the 2001 presidential elections will deviate from this salutary trend. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Some improvements have been made and others are contemplated there which, it is believed, will have a very salutary effect. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Under its salutary sanction stores of ship timber have been procured and are in process of seasoning and preservation for the future uses of the Navy. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This measure has produced many salutary consequences. |
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| "Salutary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.23% of the time. "Salutary" is used about 106 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.23% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.77% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 106 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
neglect salutary | 20 |
salutary | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "salutary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shërues (conjurer, curative, healer, healing, remedial, sanative, sanatory), i mirë për shëndet, i dobishëm (beneficent, beneficial, effective, good, handy, helpful, instrumental, pay, profitable, serviceable, subservient, useful, wholesome). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفيد (advantageous, available, beneficial, gainful, helpful, of use, profitable, purposive, serviceable, stead, useful, wholesome), صحي (constitutional, healthful, healthy, hygienic, salubrious, sanitary, wholesome). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | здравословен (good, healthful, healthy, hygienic, salubrious, wholesome), лечебен (curative, healing, medic, medicative, medicinal, therapeutic), благотворен (beneficial, helpful, wholesome), ползотворен (beneficial, useful), полезен (advantageous, beneficial, good, handy, helpful, profitable, serviceable, useful, wholesome). (various references) | |
Czech | užiteèný (beneficial, good, handy, helpful, profitable, subservient, useful, valuable, worthwhile), prospìšný (beneficial, expedient, good, rewarding, serviceable, subservient), blahodárný (beneficial, benign, soothing, wholesome). (various references) | |
Farsi | سلامت بخش , سودمند (Available, Beneficial, Commodious, Good, Handy, Instrumental, Lucrative, Salubrious, Serviceable, Useful), سالم ومغذی , درودی . (various references) | |
Finnish | terveellinen (beneficial, healthful, healthy, wholesome). (various references) | |
French | salutaire, salubre (salubrious, sanitary), bienfaisant. (various references) | |
German | gesund (able bodied, daffy, fit, fresh, Hale, healthful, healthy, invigorating, nonhazardous, nonvenomous, robust, ruddy, salubrious, salubriously, salutarily, sanely, solid, sound, strong, trig, well, wholesome), heilbringend (beneficial, medicinal, redeeming). (various references) | |
Greek | σωτηριακόσ, σωτήριοσ (saving), ωφέλιμοσ (expedient, useful), υγιεινόσ (healthful, healthy, hygienic, salubrious, sanatory, sanitarian, sanitary, wholesome), ευεργετικόσ (benefactory, beneficial). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מועיל (advantageous, beneficial, helpful, instrumental, useful), מבריא (restorative, wholesome). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hasznos (advantageous, be of service, beneficial, conducive, effective, expedient, helpful, instrumental, profitable, remunerative, serviceable, subservient, to stand in good stead, useful), üdvös (advisable, benign, remedial, wholesome). (various references) | |
Italian | salutare (beneficial, greet, greet each other, hail, healthy, salute, say goodbye to, wave off, welcome). (various references) | |
Manx | follanagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alutarysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | salutar (beneficial, salubrious, sanative, sanatory, sanitary, wholesome). (various references) | |
Romanian | salutar, folositor (advantageous, beneficial, effective, expedient, gainful, helpful, instrumental, of use, profitable, purposeful, serviceable, sound, subservient, suitable, useful, wholesome), bun (affectionate, applicable, belongings, beneficial, benevolent, bonny, bright, canny, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, genuine, good, goods, grand, grandfather, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, proper, real, right, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, splendid, suitable, true, upright, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome), binevenit (felicitous, seasonable, timely, welcome), binefãcãtor (benefactor, beneficent, beneficial, beneficient, bracing, well doer, wholesome). (various references) | |
Russian | благотворный (beneficent, beneficial, benign, benignant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zdrav (able bodied, bonny, bouncing, healthy, salubrious, sanatory, sound, well, wholesome), lekovit (curative, healing, healthful, medicative, medicinal, remedial, salubrious, sanative, sanatory). (various references) | |
Spanish | saludable (good, healthy, salubrious, wholesome), benéfico (beneficent, beneficial). (various references) | |
Swedish | nyttig (advantageous, bestead, good, helpful, prifitable, profitable, useful, wholesome), hälsosam (healthful, healthy, salubrious, wholesome). (various references) | |
Turkish | sağlıklı (bonny, bouncing, fit, florid, healthful, healthy, husky, in good health, in good nick, right, ruddy, salubrious, sanative, sanatory, sound, well, whole, wholesome), yararlı (advantageous, beneficial, benign, benignant, efficacious, good, handy, healthful, healthy, helpful, of use, profitable, salubrious, sanative, sanatory, subservient, useful, wholesome), iyi gelen (healing, recuperative), faydalı (advantageous, beneficial, benignant, favorable, favourable, helpful, of use, profitable, rewarding, serviceable, useful, utilitarian, utility, valuable). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | цілющій, здоровий (able bodied, bonny, full-blooded, healthful, healthy, hearty, hygienic, hygienical, robust, salubrious, sound, well, well-conditioned), благотворний (beneficent, wholesome). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bổ ích. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | salutaris, tutus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | halwende. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | salutaire. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Salutary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Salestrak, salitary, saloduro, saltoro, saluatory, salustro, salutare, salutaris, salutarty, salutery, salutory, Samugarh, Sanlucar, saulter, saultry, sautay, sellatory, solutary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "salutary" (pronounced sa"lyute'rē) |
| 6 | -y u t e' r ē | tributary. |
| 5 | -u t e' r ē | budgetary, cemetery, cometary, depositary, dietary, dignitary, hereditary, interplanetary, military, monetary, nonmilitary, paramilitary, pituitary, planetary, proprietary, sanitary, secretary, solitary, undersecretary, unitary, unsanitary. |
| 4 | -t e' r ē | commentary, dysentery, fragmentary, involuntary, momentary, monastery, sedentary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, centenary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, Dewberry, dictionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, obituary, ordinary, pecuniary, preliminary, primary, probationary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, sanctuary, savagery, secondary, semilegendary, seminary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, unnecessary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: astylar, austral. | |
-2 letters: altars, astral, astray, lauras, lustra, ratals, salary, stylar, sultry, talars, tarsal, ultras. | |
-3 letters: alary, altar, artal, artsy, aryls, asyla, atlas, aural, auras, laura, lusty, lyart, ratal, rayas, rusty, salty, satay, satyr, sault, saury, slaty, stray, sural, surly, sutra, talar, talas, talus, trays, truly, ultra, yurta, yurts. | |
-4 letters: aals, alar, alas, alts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-r-s-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: salutarily, salutatory. | |
+3 letters: vascularity. | |
+4 letters: amateurishly, auscultatory, avascularity, constabulary, quasicrystal, supravitally. | |
+5 letters: agranulocytes, measurability, parasexuality, quasicrystals, saturnalianly, spectacularly, ultraphysical, ultraroyalist. | |
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