different between salubrious vs profitable
salubrious
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)
- 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 ...
- 2001, Francis Forster, Cockles and Mussels, iUniverse ?ISBN, page 133
Synonyms
- (promoting health or well-being): healthful
Antonyms
- (promoting health or well-being): insalubrious
Related terms
- salubriously
- salubriousness
- salubrity
Translations
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profitable
English
Etymology
Old French profitable.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??f?t?bl?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??f?t?bl?/
- Hyphenation: prof?it?a?ble
Adjective
profitable (comparative more profitable, superlative most profitable)
- Producing a profit.
- Beneficial, serviceable, of use.
- c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:
- I wylbe ferme and ?tabyll
And to yow ?eruyceabyll
And also prophytabyll
Yf ye be agreabyll
My propyr Be??e
To turne a gayne to me
- I wylbe ferme and ?tabyll
- 1953, ?Richmond Lattimore, Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound", in Greek Tragedies
- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
- c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:
Synonyms
- lucrative
- beneficial
Antonyms
- unprofitable
Derived terms
Translations
French
Etymology
From profiter +? -able
Adjective
profitable (plural profitables)
- profitable
Further reading
- “profitable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
profiter +? -able.
Adjective
profitable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular profitable)
- useful; usable; that one can make use of
Descendants
- ? English: profitable
- French: profitable
References
- profitable on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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