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unsalutary en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + salutary.

Meanings

1. Not salutary.
   • It furnished a strong, and perhaps not an unsalutary contrast, to the terrors which had preceded, and the dreadful scenes that awaited me. 1903, William Godwin, Caleb Williams:
   • Such Nations cannot have a King to command them; can only have this or the other scandalous swindling Copper Captain, constitutional Gilt Mountebank, or other the like unsalutary entity by way of King; and the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children in a frightful and tragical manner, little noticed in the Penny Newspapers and Periodical Literatures of this generation. 1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.):

Forms

Translations (4)

pl niezbawienny (not effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice) · pl niezdrowotny (not promoting good health and physical well-being) · es insalubre (not promoting good health and physical well-being) · pl niepożyteczny (not effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice)