SALUTARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salutary mean? 

• SALUTARY (adjective)
  The adjective SALUTARY has 1 sense:

1. tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health

  Familiarity information: SALUTARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALUTARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health

Synonyms:

good; salutary

Context example:

the salutary influence of pure air

Similar:

healthful (conducive to good health of body or mind)

 Context examples 

All this time we, the outsiders, remained oppressed by the tremendous interests involved in the conversation; and our host regarded us with pride, as the victims of a salutary awe and astonishment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She said she was very well, and did not like to be supposed otherwise; but take it all in all, he was convinced that her present residence could not be comfortable, and therefore could not be salutary for her, and he was growing anxious for her being again at Mansfield, where her own happiness, and his in seeing her, must be so much greater.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Also, while aware that poverty was anything but delectable, she had a comfortable middle-class feeling that poverty was salutary, that it was a sharp spur that urged on to success all men who were not degraded and hopeless drudges.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You too have principle and mind: your tastes and habits resemble Diana's and Mary's; your presence is always agreeable to me; in your conversation I have already for some time found a salutary solace.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)