Words / C2

s-uh-LOOBR-ee-uh-s/səˈluːbriəs/

Salubrious means healthy and pleasant to live in or experience — often of a neighbourhood: a more salubrious part of town. Healthy is everyday; pleasant is weaker. Unsalubrious (or less salubrious) is the usual negative for a seedy area. In speech, nicer / healthier / more respectable is what people say; salubrious is slightly old-fashioned and wry, as if quoting an estate agent. It is not a medical term for a diet.

Meaning

Pleasant and healthy to live in or experience.

Examples

• “They moved to a more salubrious part of town.”
• “They left the basement flat for somewhere more salubrious.”
• “Sea air was advertised as salubrious, which mostly meant cold.”

Good to know

Healthy and pleasant (often a place). Everyday: nicer / healthier. Slightly dated or ironic in speech.

Near in meaning

healthy

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