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Salubrious: Good for the health. Healthy. Promoting health or well-being. Wholesome. For example, smog is far from salubrious.
From the Latin salubris, from salus (health), ultimately from Indo-European root sol- (whole), the source also of the word salutary to which salubrious is closely related in meaning.
Definition of SALUBRIOUS: favorable to or promoting health or well-being < salubrious habits> — sa·lu·bri·ous·ly adverb — sa·lu·bri·ous·ness noun
adjective favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air. Origin: 1540–50; < Latin salūbr ( is ) promoting health (akin to salūs health) + -ious ...
adj. Conducive or favorable to health or well-being. [From Latin salūbris , from salūs , health.] salubriously sa·lu ' bri·ous·ly adv. salubriousness sa·lu ...
sa·lu·bri·ous (s-l br-s) adj. Conducive or favorable to health or well-being. [From Latin sal bris, from sal s, health; see sol-in Indo-European roots.]
Promoting health or well-being; wholesome. Especially related to air.