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Definition of salutary : 1. Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.
2. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.

Synonyms:

proficient, dependable, healthsome, full, just, hygienic, ripe, healthful, adept, well, respectable, propitious, good, strong, practiced, skilful, right, skillful, in effect, beneficial, undecomposed, in force, honorable, salubrious, serious, health, honest, profitable, benefic, useful, estimable, unspoiled, safe, benignant, favorable, unspoilt, toward, expert, sound, dear, vigorous, effective, hearty, nutritious, beneficent, sanitary, healthy, upright, near, help, secure, hale, wholesome

remedial, helpful, restorative, tonic, curative, invigorating, bracing, advantageous

Usage examples:

• The antients very gratefully gave the merit of every useful and salutary invention to the Gods. - "A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)", Jacob Bryant.
• In 1840 he received a call from the L. J. S. to go as a missionary to Berlin, where, by his learning and piety and loving disposition, he made a salutary impression upon the Jews. - "Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ", Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D..
• Therefore inflammation in itself is not to be considered a disease, but a salutary operation consequent either to some violence or to some disease. - "The American Reformed Cattle Doctor", George Dadd.