Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

insalutary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-salu-tary
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not salutary or wholesome; bad for the health.

adj

unsafe or bringing about evil.

Example Sentences

"What Mr. Spencer claims, and what is claimed in behalf of scientific philanthropy, is simply to regulate, by healthy and moral modes, the increase of the improvident on the means of subsistence; and this the true philanthropist will do by teaching the laws of health, by right physical education, and by wise sanitary measures. So insalutary are the conditions of the environment of the poor in the cities, that only by fitting themselves to unfavorable conditions is life worth living."
"insalutary thoughts"
"insalutary influences"
"How is the monk a Learned One? He has learned what are all these evil and insalutary things"

Etymology

From Latin insaluteris. Compare French insalutaire. See in- (“not”) + salutary.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Prefix: in-
Root: insaluteris
Suffix: salutary

Inflected Forms

more insalutary (comparative) most insalutary (superlative)

Questions

What does insalutary mean?: Not salutary or wholesome; bad for the health.
Where does insalutary come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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