insalubrious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=sa=lu=bri=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

insalubrious, a. [Pref. in- not + salubrious: cf. L. insalubris, F. insalubre.].

 Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

insalubrious, adj. (of a climate or place) unhealthy.

Derivative

insalubrity n.

Etymology

L insalubris (as IN-(1), SALUBRIOUS)

THESAURUS

insalubrious

bad, bad for, contaminated, foul, harmful, injurious, insanitary, morbific, noisome, noxious, pathogenic, peccant, pestiferous, polluted, septic, sickly, tainted, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesome

ROGET THESAURUS

insalubrious

Insalubrity

N insalubrity, unhealthiness, nonnaturals, plague spot, malaria, death in the pot, contagion, toxicity, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome, noxious, noisome, morbific, morbiferous, mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious, pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential, virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic, narcotic, contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic, epizootic, innutritious, indigestible, ungenial, uncongenial, deadly.