insalubrious
/ɪnsəˈluːbɹɪəs/
insalubrious adjective: unhealthful, not providing or promoting health.
Adjective
insalubrious (comparative more insalubrious, superlative most insalubrious)
- Unhealthful, not providing or promoting health.
- What in the name of Common Sense is to recommend Brinshore?—A most insalubrious Air—Roads proverbially detestable—Water Brackish beyond example, impossible to get a good dish of Tea within 3 miles of the place—& as for the Soil—it is so cold & ungrateful that it can hardly be made to yeild^([sic])...1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 1, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon...
- But while the were a few pockets of the city centre that were desirable places in which to live, for the most part London's traditional areas were overcrowded and insalubrious.2025 September 3, Christian Wolmar, “9 to 5: The changing face of commuting”, in RAIL, number 1043, page 55
insalubrious meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
insalubrious in Tamil
- உடல்நலத்துக்கு ஒவ்வாத
insalubrious in Urdu
- ناگوار, ناموافق
insalubrious in Bengali
- স্বাস্থ্যের জন্য ক্ষতিকর
insalubrious in Malayalam
- sordid, seedy, seamy
- അനാരോഗ്യകരമായ, അപഥ്യമായ, അസുഖകരമായ, ജീർണ്ണിച്ച, വെടിപ്പില്ലാത്ത, രസംതോന്നാത്ത
Forms of insalubrious
| comparative | more insalubrious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most insalubrious |
Origin of insalubrious
From in- + salubrious.
Words formed from insalubrious
Questions about insalubrious
- What does insalubrious mean?
- Insalubrious means unhealthful, not providing or promoting health.
- What is insalubrious in Tamil?
- Insalubrious in Tamil is உடல்நலத்துக்கு ஒவ்வாத. See Insalubrious meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is insalubrious?
- Insalubrious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce insalubrious?
- Insalubrious is pronounced /ɪnsəˈluːbɹɪəs/.
Words near insalubrious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: insalubrious (page history and authors); insalubrious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insalubrious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insalubrious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insalubrious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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