different between salubrious vs edifying

English

Etymology

From Latin sal?bris (“healthy”) +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?-lo?o'br?-?s, IPA^(key): /s??lu?.b?i?.?s/

Adjective

salubrious (comparative more salubrious, superlative most salubrious)

1. Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially as related to air.
   • 2001, Francis Forster, Cockles and Mussels, iUniverse ?ISBN, page 133

     Ireland has a mild, genial and salubrious climate, I remember from my geography lessons. Salubrious, my foot! Unless you take salubrious to mean a regular downpour the whole year round, with, in between, a penetrating dampness that'd  ...

Synonyms

• (promoting health or well-being): healthful

Antonyms

• (promoting health or well-being): insalubrious

Related terms

• salubriously
• salubriousness
• salubrity

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?fa???/

Adjective

edifying (comparative more edifying, superlative most edifying)

1. That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs.
2. That enlightens or uplifts.

Verb

edifying

1. present participle of edify

Noun

edifying (plural edifyings)

1. edification
   • 2002, E. Beatrice Batson, Selected comedies and late romances of Shakespeare from a Christian perspective

     I am slightly skeptical about the neatness of these edifyings in the play. Olivia remains my best positive case, Malvolio my best negative. "Too proud," as Viola says, Olivia is humbled by both Feste and Viola, her twin fools, but more obviously and more frequently by herself, until finally she is blessed with the joy of undeserved grace and love. Malvolio will not learn that his madness is everyone's madness in Illyria.

Anagrams

• deifying