Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unsalutary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-salu-tary
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"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."
"It furnished a strong, and perhaps not an unsalutary contrast, to the terrors which had preceded, and the dreadful scenes that awaited me."

Etymology

From un- + salutary.

Inflected Forms

more unsalutary (comparative) most unsalutary (superlative)

Questions

What does unsalutary mean?: Not salutary.
Where does unsalutary come from?: From un- + salutary.

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