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Salutary vs Adequate - What's the difference?

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Salutary is a related term of adequate.


As adjectives the difference between salutary and adequate

is that salutary is effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice while adequate is .

salutary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.
  • * '>citation
    • We do it here historically, and I think it's, um, very salutary to know quite a bit about the history of ideas, particularly in philosophy which always suffers from a tendency to follow the latest fashion.
  • Promoting good health and physical well-being; wholesome; curative.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * salutarily * salutariness

    Related terms

    * salubrious * salutation * salute

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    adequate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition lawfully and physically sufficient.
  • * De Quincey
    • Ireland had no adequate champion.
  • * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House
    • All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate .

    Antonyms

    * inadequate

    Verb

    (adequat)
  • (obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.
    • (Fotherby)
  • (obsolete) To equal.
    • It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. — Shelford.