WORD: "Insalubrious"
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hazelnut_cafeInsalubrious
(adjective)
[in'·sah·LOO·bree·ahs]
1. detrimental to health; 'an insalubrious climate': "The back country can be insalubrious for the unprepared."
adverb form: insalubriously noun form: insalubrity
Origin:
Approximately 1635; from Latin, 'insalubris' ('in-': not + 'salubris,' from 'salus': health).
(From Vocabvitamins.com. I'm going to use it in a poem for school someday, just to see what the teacher says.)
(adjective)
[in'·sah·LOO·bree·ahs]
1. detrimental to health; 'an insalubrious climate': "The back country can be insalubrious for the unprepared."
adverb form: insalubriously noun form: insalubrity
Origin:
Approximately 1635; from Latin, 'insalubris' ('in-': not + 'salubris,' from 'salus': health).
(From Vocabvitamins.com. I'm going to use it in a poem for school someday, just to see what the teacher says.)
