salutary

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sal=u=tar=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

salutary, a. [L. salutaris, from salus, -utis, health, safety: cf. F. salutaire. See Salubrious.].

•  Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.  [1913 Webster]
•  Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Wholesome; healthful; salubrious; beneficial; useful; advantageous; profitable.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

salutary, adj.
1 producing good effects; beneficial.
2 archaic health-giving.

Etymology

ME f. F salutaire or L salutaris f. salus -utis health

THESAURUS

salutary

aidful, beneficial, benign, bracing, conducive, constitutional, constructive, contributory, furthersome, good, good for, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, helpful, hygeian, hygienic, invigorating, positive, profitable, refreshing, remedial, restorative, salubrious, sanative, sanatory, sanitary, serviceable, therapeutic, tonic, useful, wholesome

ROGET THESAURUS

salutary

Goodness

N goodness, excellence, merit, virtue, value, worth, price, super-excellence, supereminence, superiority, perfection, coup de maitre, masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, cock of the roost, salt of the earth, champion, prodigy, tidbit, gem, gem of the first water, bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure, good thing, rara avis, one in a thousand, beneficence, good man, harmless, hurtless, unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent, inoffensive, beneficial, valuable, of value, serviceable, advantageous, edifying, profitable, salutary, favorable, propitious fair, good, good as gold, excellent, better, superior, above par, nice, fine, genuine, best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless, unparagoned, unparalleled, superlatively, good, bully, crackajack, giltedged, superfine, superexcellent, of the first water, first-rate, first-class, high- wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal, standard, inimitable, admirable, estimable, praiseworthy, pleasing, couleur de rose, precious, of great price, costly, worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye, priceless, invaluable, inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye, tolerable, up to the mark, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, satisfactory, tidy, in good condition, in fair condition, fresh, sound, beneficially, well, Jewels five words long, long may such goodness live!, the luxury of doing good.

Salubrity

N salubrity, healthiness, fine air, fine climate, eudiometer, hygiene, valetudinarian, valetudinarianism, sanitarian, sanitarium, sanitOrium, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, wholesome, healthy, healthful, sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious, hygeian, hygienic, innoxious, innocuous, innocent, harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious, sanative, restorative, useful.