insalutary

insalutary adjective: not salutary or wholesome; bad for the health.

Adjective

insalutary (comparative more insalutary, superlative most insalutary)

Not salutary or wholesome; bad for the health.
- 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...1884 August, Lee J. Vance, “Scientific Philanthropy”, in Popular Science Monthly
unsafe or bringing about evil.
- insalutary thoughts
- insalutary influences

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.1884 August, Lee J. Vance, “Scientific Philanthropy”, in Popular Science Monthly:
He has learned what are all these evil and insalutary things1913, The Majjhima-nikāya, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

comparative	more insalutary
superlative	most insalutary

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

What does insalutary mean?: Insalutary means not salutary or wholesome; bad for the health.
How do you use insalutary in a sentence?: 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.
What part of speech is insalutary?: Insalutary is an adjective.

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