Salutary

/ˈsaljʊtəɹi/ · adjective

Meaning

Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

salutary advice

The effect was most salutary; and, amid starts and screams—for the poor girl was fairly frightened out of the small portion of sense that, at any time, belonged to her—they learned that Lord Marchmont had been found dead in his bed; and that Lady Marchmont was, with the shock, in a state of almost insanity!

We do it here historically, and I think it's, um, very salutary to know quite a bit about the history of ideas, particularly in philosophy which always suffers from a tendency to follow the latest fashion.

Using such neofuturists as Nicholas Negroponte to support his argument, Groper argues that “being digital” is constitutive of today’s salutary political life (167).

In the living state, the body is observed to […] reject what is noxious; to select what is salutary; […]

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