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Salutary vs Effectual - What's the difference?

salutary | effectual |

As adjectives the difference between salutary and effectual

is that salutary is effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice while effectual is producing the intended result; entirely adequate.

salutary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.
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  • 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

    effectual

    English

    Alternative forms

    * effectuall (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Producing the intended result; entirely adequate.
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , Redoubling, then, the active energy of his thrusts, favoured by the fervid appetite of my motions, the soft oiled wards can no longer stand so effectual a picklock, but yield, and open him an entrance.}}

    Antonyms

    * ineffectual