salutary

adj.

1. Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.
2. Favorable to health; wholesome: a salutary climate.

[Middle English saluter, from Old French salutaire, from Latin salūtāris, from salūs, salūt-, health.]

salutarily sal'u·tar'i·ly (-târ'ə-lē) adv.
salutariness sal'u·tar'i·ness n.

(SAL-yuh-ter-ee)

adjective
1. Beneficial; useful; remedial.
2. Healthful.

Etymology
Via French salutaire, or directly from Latin salutaris, from salut-, stem of salus- (health). Ultimately from Indo-European root sol- (whole). A few other words derived from this root are salute, safe, salvage, solemn, and save.

Usage
"'The measures are bound to have a salutary effect. We hope that the consumers now would not have to wait for years for redressal of their grievances,' said Prabir Basu, president of Consumer Lawyers' Association." — Sanjay Mandal; Forum for Consumers Cuts Red Tape; The Telegraph (Calcutta, India); Apr 11, 2004.

"For the left, (Bob) Dylan is sometimes a bitter medicine, but also a salutary tonic." — Mike Marqusee; Scourge of All Masters of War; The Guardian (London, UK); Oct 25, 2003.

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adjective

1. Affording benefit: advantageous, benefic, beneficent, beneficial, benignant, favorable, good, helpful, profitable, propitious, toward, useful. See help/harm/harmless.
2. Promoting good health: healthful, healthsome, healthy, hygienic, salubrious, wholesome. See health/sickness.

adj

Definition: beneficial
Antonyms: irrelevant, unwelcome

adj

Definition: healthy
Antonyms: unhealthy, unwholesome

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IN BRIEF: Healthful, beneficial.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. — William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English short story writer, novelist and playwright.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - sund, gavnlig

Nederlands (Dutch)
weldadig, gezond

Français (French)
adj. - salutaire

Deutsch (German)
adj. - heilsam, gesund

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ωφέλιμος, εξυγιαντικός, σωτήριος

Italiano (Italian)
salutare

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - salutar

Русский (Russian)
здоровый, полезный для здоровья, целительный, полезный, благотворный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - saludable, benéfico

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - nyttig, hälsosam, välgörande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
有益的, 有益健康的, 有用的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 有益的, 有益健康的, 有用的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 건강에 좋은, 이로운

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 有益な, 健康によい, 健康的な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مفيد, صحي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מועיל, בריא, טוב‬

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