salutary
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Synonyms
advantageous, benefic, beneficent, beneficial, benignant, favorable, friendly, good, helpful, kindly, profitable
Antonyms
bad, disadvantageous, unfavorable, unfriendly, unhelpful, unprofitable
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For others, Richey’s fixation on death and loss was not a salutary example. — Longreads, "Manic Street Preachers’ Album The Holy Bible," 25 June 2019 All of this slowly converts Sunset Towers into an oddly salutary hothouse environment. — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, "“The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism," 13 June 2019 This expansion of the news ecosystem is having a salutary effect on a profession in doldrums. — Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, "Bellingcat and How Open Source Reinvented Investigative Journalism," 10 June 2019 The thing that Americans do most often with their free time is not cooking or exercising or hiking or any other seemingly salutary activity. — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, "When Did TV Watching Peak?," 30 May 2018 But patient readers may be inspired by Mr. Fumaroli’s admiring portraits of men and women whose social networks were far more salutary than our own. — Laura Auricchio, WSJ, "‘The Republic of Letters’ Review: A Network of Open Minds," 25 Dec. 2018 As our lifespans extend to a century, readers may find Czapski a salutary companion for the road ahead in our era of distraction. — Cynthia Haven, WSJ, "Book Review: Shouldering the Century’s Burden," 25 Jan. 2019 Next, conditioning support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizaiton on European allies’ paying more for their defense would have the salutary effect of freeing up money for other priorities. — Bobby Jindal, WSJ, "If Democrats Were Shrewd . . .," 30 Dec. 2018 Management types began using it to try to play up the salutary effects of mergers and acquisitions. — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, "The Meaning of ‘Synergy’: Working Together, for Good and Ill," 14 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'salutary.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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