(of an experience) having a good effect on sb/sth, though often seeming unpleasant:
a salutary lesson / experience / warning * The accident was a salutary reminder of the dangers of climbing. * This would have a salutary effect upon the health of the family.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for salutary is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is salutary a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, salutary is tagged as adjective.
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