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Wholesome vs Insalutary - What's the difference?

wholesome | insalutary |

As adjectives the difference between wholesome and insalutary

is that wholesome is promoting good health and well-being while insalutary is not salutary or wholesome; bad for health.

wholesome

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Promoting good health and well-being.
  • Promoting moral and mental well-being.
  • Sound and healthy.
  • Promoting virtue or being virtuous.

    • Synonyms

    * (promoting health) healthy, healthful, salubrious

    Antonyms

    * unwholesome

    Derived terms

    * wholesomely * wholesomeness

    References

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    insalutary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not salutary or wholesome; bad for health.
  • Not tending to safety; productive of evil.
    • (Webster 1913)