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unsalutary

unsalutary adjective: not salutary.

Adjective

unsalutary (comparative more unsalutary, superlative most unsalutary)

  1. Not salutary.
    • Such Nations cannot have a King to command them; can only have this or the other scandalous swindling Copper Captain, constitutional Gilt Mountebank, or other the like unsalutary entity by way of King; and the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children in a frightful and tragical manner...1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.)
    • It furnished a strong, and perhaps not an unsalutary contrast, to the terrors which had preceded, and the dreadful scenes that awaited me.1903, William Godwin, Caleb Williams

Forms of unsalutary

comparativemore unsalutary
superlativemost unsalutary

Origin of unsalutary

From un- + salutary.

Questions about unsalutary

What does unsalutary mean?
Unsalutary means not salutary.
What part of speech is unsalutary?
Unsalutary is an adjective.

Words near unsalutary in the dictionary

  1. unsaltiness
  2. unsalting
  3. unsalts
  4. unsalty
  5. unsalubrious
  6. unsalutary
  7. unsaluted
  8. unsaluting
  9. unsalvability
  10. unsalvable
  11. unsalvagable

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