salutary

Main Entry:
salutary [sal-yuh-ter-ee]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: healthy
Synonyms: aiding, beneficial, fit, good, healing, healthful, nourishing, nutritious, restorative, salubrious, sound, tonic, well, wholesome
Main Entry: beneficial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: advantageous
Synonyms: benign, constructive, favorable, favoring, gainful, good, good for what ails you, healthful, helpful, profitable, propitious, salubrious, salutary, serviceable, toward, useful, valuable, what the doctor ordered, wholesome, worthy
Antonyms: disadvantageous, harmful, hurting, unfortunate, unhelpful, unrewarding
Main Entry: benign
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: advantageous
Synonyms: auspicious, beneficent, benevolent, bright, charitable, dexter, encouraging, favorable, fortunate, good, lucky, merciful, propitious, salutary, smiling
Notes: benign refers to a trait or characteristic; benignant to a tendency or disposition
Antonyms: disadvantageous, harmful, hurtful
Main Entry: curative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: healing, health-giving
Synonyms: alleviative, beneficial, corrective, curing, healthful, helpful, invigorating, medicable, medicative, medicinal, pick-me-up, remedial, remedying, restorative, salutary, sanative, shot in the arm, therapeutic, tonic, vulnerary, what the doctor ordered, wholesome
Antonyms: harmful, hurting, injurious, painful
Main Entry: good
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: useful, adequate
Synonyms: acceptable, advantageous, all right, ample, appropriate, approving, apt, auspicious, becoming, benefic, beneficial, benignant, brave, commendatory, commending, common, conformable, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, favorable, favoring, fit, fitting, fruitful, healthful, healthy, helpful, hygienic, meet, needed, opportune, profitable, proper, propitious, respectable, right, salubrious, salutary, satisfying, seemly, serviceable, suitable, tolerable, toward, unobjectionable, wholesome
Notes: using good as an adverb in place of well ("she dances real good," "he did good") is nonstandard usage - so, it would be best to say "she dances very well," "he did well"
well is an adverb to describe an activity; good is an adjective to describe a condition or state
Antonyms: inadequate, rotten, unsuitable
Main Entry: healthful/healthy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: good for one's wellness
Synonyms: advantageous, aiding, aseptic, beneficial, benign, body-building, bracing, cathartic, clean, compensatory, conducive, corrective, desirable, disease-free, energy-giving, fresh, harmless, healing, health-giving, helpful, hygienic, innocuous, invigorating, mitigative, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, profitable, pure, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanatory, sanitary, stimulating, sustaining, tonic, unadulterated, unpolluted, untainted, useful, wholesome
Antonyms: bad, corrupt, diseased, noxious, rotten, sickening, unhealthful, unhealthy
Main Entry: hygienic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clean
Synonyms: aseptic, disinfected, germ-free, good, healthful, healthy, pure, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, sanitary, sterile, uncontaminated, uninfected, wholesome
Antonyms: contaminated, dirty, diseased, filthy, foul, infected, unclean, unpure, unsanitary, unsterile
Main Entry: nutritious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: healthy
Synonyms: alimental, alimentative, balanced, beneficial, good, health-giving, healthful, invigorating, nourishing, nutrient, nutrimental, nutritive, salubrious, salutary, strengthening, wholesome
Antonyms: bad, insubstantial, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome
Main Entry: salubrious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: health-giving
Synonyms: beneficial, good, healthful, healthy, hygienic, invigorating, salutary, sanitary, wholesome
Notes: salacious means characterized by lust or suggestive of or tending to moral looseness, while salubrious means favorable to health or promoting health
Antonyms: insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome
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