Salutary

ahd-5
  • adjective. Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial.
  • adjective. Favorable to health; wholesome.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wholesome; healthful; healing.
  • Promotive of or contributing to some beneficial purpose; beneficial; profitable.
  • Synonyms Salubrious, etc. See healthy.
  • Useful, advantageous, favorable.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health.
  • adjective. Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.
  • adjective. Promoting good health; wholesome; curative.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
  • Word Usage
    "It was there, in the moments after 9/11, that Bush truly decided on war, maybe because Saddam had once tried to kill George H.W. Bush, maybe because the neocons had convinced him that a brief war in Iraq would have long-term salutary consequences for the entire Middle East, maybe because he could not abide the thought that a monster like Saddam might die in his sleep -- and maybe because he heard destiny calling."
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