What does insalubrious mean?

insalubrious means "detrimental to health".

How many syllables are in insalubrious?

insalubrious has 5 syllables and divides as in-sa-lu-bri-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for insalubrious?

Close synonyms include unhealthful, unhealthy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is insalubrious a common word?

insalubrious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Insalubrious — meaning and 2 synonyms

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
detrimental to health
Synonymsunhealthful unhealthy
Similarunwholesome

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What does insalubrious mean?: insalubrious means "detrimental to health".
How many syllables are in insalubrious?: insalubrious has 5 syllables and divides as in-sa-lu-bri-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.
What is another word for insalubrious?

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