Synonyms for salutary
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Beneficial — promoting good health and physical well-being; wholesome; curative
beneficial, healthful, salubrious, healthy, laudable, wholesome, salutiferous, healful
2. Useful
good, useful, advantageous, helpful, profitable, serviceable
Definitions
- adj. 1
Promoting good health and physical well-being; wholesome; curative.
- adj. 2
Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial.
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With healthful are ranged the words hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, and wholesome, while the other words are associated with healthy. Salutary is now chiefly used in the moral sense; as, a salutary lesson.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- beneficial Red wine is beneficial, its secret lies in dosing.
- healthful My goats are more healthful than this man's oxen will ever be.
- laudable The most laudable way of acquiring books is by writing them yourself.
- salubrious Tom had to move to a less salubrious neighborhood.
- useful Rocks and minerals are useful for us in many ways.
- advantageous This marriage will be advantageous to his career.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| salutary | falling | |
| beneficial | steady | |
| healthful | steady | |
| laudable | steady | |
| salubrious | steady | |
| useful | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- good1
- 6 letters
- useful2
- 7 letters
- healthy2, helpful2, healful
- 8 letters
- laudable3
- 9 letters
- wholesome2, healthful2
- 10 letters
- beneficial4, profitable4, salubrious
- 11 letters
- serviceable4
- 12 letters
- advantageous4, salutiferous
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (useful2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- salutaire