salutary

The word “salutary” has 4 syllables: sal-u-ta-ry

It's pronounced as /ˈsæl.jʊ.tər.i/


What is synonym and antonym for salutary?

In the thesaurus, “salutary” has 61 synonyms and 23 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for salutary along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for salutary

  • advantageous
  • advisable
  • aiding
  • alleviative
  • ameliorative
  • amelioratory
  • antiseptic
  • aseptic
  • auspicious
  • benefic
  • beneficent
  • beneficial
  • benignant
  • bettering
  • clean
  • constructive
  • corrective
  • curative
  • desirable
  • favorable
  • fit
  • friendly
  • gainful
  • good
  • gratifying
  • healing
  • healthful
  • healthy
  • helpful
  • hygienic
  • kindly
  • lucrative
  • medicinal
  • nonpoisonous
  • nontoxic
  • nourishing
  • nutritional
  • nutritious
  • profitable
  • promising
  • propitious
  • recuperative
  • refreshing
  • rehabilitative
  • rejuvenating
  • rejuvenescent
  • remedial
  • remunerative
  • restorative
  • rewarding
  • salubrious
  • salutiferous
  • sanative
  • sanitary
  • satisfying
  • sound
  • supportive
  • tonic
  • useful
  • well
  • wholesome

Antonyms for salutary

  • bad
  • damaging
  • deleterious
  • disadvantageous
  • harmful
  • infectious
  • injurious
  • insalubrious
  • insanitary
  • noxious
  • pernicious
  • poisonous
  • sickening
  • toxic
  • unfavorable
  • unfriendly
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unhelpful
  • unhygienic
  • unprofitable
  • unsanitary
  • unwholesome

Meanings of salutary

  • adjective
    1. Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.
    2. Promoting good health and physical well-being; wholesome; curative.

Example Sentences

  • The failure served as a salutary reminder to always double-check our work.
  • The accident had a salutary effect on his driving habits, making him more cautious on the road.
  • His speech had a salutary impact on the audience, inspiring them to take action for positive change.
  • The new regulations had a salutary effect on reducing pollution in the city.
  • Experiencing failure can be a salutary lesson, teaching us valuable insights for future success.

On this page you'll find 84 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to salutary, such as: advantageous, advisable, aiding, alleviative, ameliorative, amelioratory, antiseptic.

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noxious

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • adverse
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • barbarous
  • brackish
  • contagious
  • contemptible
  • corrupting
  • damaging
  • dangerous
  • deadly
  • deleterious
  • despicable
  • destructive
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • disagreeable
  • disgusting
  • dislikable
  • dislikeable
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dreadful
  • evil
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • fatal
  • fetid
  • foul
  • frightful
  • fulsome
  • germy
  • ghastly
  • grewsome
  • grim
  • grisly
  • gross
  • gruesome
  • hard
  • harmful
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • heinous
  • hideous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrific
  • horrifying
  • hostile
  • hurtful
  • ill
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inimical
  • injurious
  • insalubrious
  • insalutary
  • insanitary
  • insidious
  • jeopardizing
  • killer
  • lethal
  • loathsome
  • lousy
  • lurid
  • macabre
  • malignant
  • menacing
  • mischievous
  • miserable
  • monstrous
  • mortal
  • nasty
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nightmarish
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • nonnutritious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • off-putting
  • offensive
  • ominous
  • parlous
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • poisonous
  • prejudicial
  • putrid
  • rancid
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • risky
  • ruinous
  • scandalous
  • shocking
  • sick
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • sinister
  • spoiled
  • stinking
  • terrible
  • threatening
  • toxic
  • ugly
  • unchristian
  • uncivilized
  • undesirable
  • unfriendly
  • ungodly
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unhygienic
  • unpleasant
  • unsafe
  • unsanitary
  • unsavory
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • unwholesome
  • upsetting
  • venomous
  • vile
  • virulent
  • wicked

officinal

  • alleviative
  • corrective
  • curative
  • healing
  • healthful
  • healthy
  • medicinal
  • remedial
  • restorative
  • salubrious
  • salutary
  • sanative
  • therapeutic
  • tonic
  • wholesome

palliative

  • abatement
  • absolution
  • account
  • acquittal
  • advocacy
  • aid
  • alky
  • allayment
  • alleviating
  • alleviation
  • amelioration
  • amendatory
  • anesthetic
  • anodyne
  • answer
  • antidotal
  • antidote
  • apologia
  • apology
  • appeasement
  • approval
  • argument
  • assistance
  • assuagement
  • balm
  • balsamic
  • basis
  • beneficial
  • benign
  • booze
  • break
  • breather
  • calming
  • canned heat
  • cheer
  • cocktail
  • comfort
  • comforting
  • confirmation
  • consolation
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • contentment
  • cop-out
  • corrective
  • cosmetic
  • counteracting
  • cream
  • curative
  • cure
  • cure-all
  • defense
  • deliverance
  • demulcent
  • diminished responsibility
  • disciplinary
  • diversion
  • drink
  • ease
  • easement
  • easing
  • elixir
  • embrocation
  • emendatory
  • ethanol
  • exculpation
  • exoneration
  • explanation
  • extenuation
  • extenuative
  • extrication
  • firewater
  • fix
  • good point
  • grounds
  • hand
  • handout
  • happiness
  • hard stuff
  • harmless
  • healing
  • healthful
  • healthy
  • help
  • helpful
  • hootch
  • hypnotic
  • idea
  • innocuous
  • inoffensive
  • intoxicant
  • lenitive
  • letup
  • lift
  • lightening
  • liniment
  • liquor
  • maintenance
  • medicinal
  • medicine
  • methanol
  • mitigation
  • mollification
  • mollifying
  • moonshine
  • narcotic
  • nonfatal
  • nonlethal
  • nonpoisonous
  • nontoxic
  • nonvenomous
  • ointment
  • opiate
  • pacifier
  • pacifying
  • palliation
  • panacea
  • partial excuse
  • penal
  • plea
  • point of character
  • preparation
  • pretext
  • punitive
  • qualification
  • quick fix
  • rationale
  • rationalization
  • reassuring
  • rebuttal
  • rectifier
  • red-eye
  • reformatory
  • refreshment
  • rehabilitative
  • relaxing
  • release
  • relief
  • relieving
  • remedial
  • remedy
  • remedying
  • remission
  • reply
  • reprieve
  • respite
  • response
  • rest
  • restfulness
  • restorative
  • rotgut
  • salubrious
  • salutary
  • salve
  • salving
  • sanctification
  • satisfaction
  • sauce
  • security blanket
  • sedative
  • smoke
  • softening
  • solace
  • solution
  • song and dance
  • soother
  • soporific
  • spirits
  • story
  • succor
  • support
  • sustenance
  • therapeutic
  • therapy
  • tipple
  • toddy
  • tranquilizer
  • tranquilizing
  • tranquillizer
  • unguent
  • validation
  • vindication
  • warming
  • warrant
  • wash
  • whatfor
  • wherefore
  • whitewashing
  • whole idea
  • wholesome
  • why and wherefore

salubrious

  • advantageous
  • alleviative
  • antiseptic
  • aseptic
  • beneficial
  • clean
  • corrective
  • curative
  • good
  • healthful
  • healthy
  • hygienic
  • invigorating
  • medicinal
  • nonpoisonous
  • nontoxic
  • nourishing
  • nutritional
  • nutritious
  • recuperative
  • refreshing
  • rehabilitative
  • rejuvenating
  • rejuvenescent
  • remedial
  • restorative
  • salutary
  • salutiferous
  • sanative
  • sanitary
  • tonic
  • useful
  • wholesome

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