insalubrious

English

Etymology

in- +‎ salubrious

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnsəˈluːbɹɪəs/

Adjective

insalubrious (comparative more insalubrious, superlative most insalubrious)

1. Unhealthful, not providing or promoting health.
   • 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 1, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, page 16:

     What in the name of Common Sense is to recommend Brinshore?—A most insalubrious Air—Roads proverbially detestable—Water Brackish beyond example, impossible to get a good dish of Tea within 3 miles of the place—& as for the Soil—it is so cold & ungrateful that it can hardly be made to yeild^[sic] a Cabbage.

Translations

unhealthful

• Bulgarian: нездравословен (bg) (nezdravosloven)
• Finnish: epäterveellinen (fi)
• French: insalubre (fr)
• Galician: insalubre (gl)
• German: unzuträglich
• Greek: ανθυγιεινός (el) (anthygieinós)
• Italian: insalubre (it), malsano (it), sfavorevole (it)
• Polish: niezdrowotny
• Portuguese: insalubre (pt)
• Romanian: insalubru (ro)
• Spanish: insalubre (es)
• Swedish: ohälsosam (sv), skadlig (sv), hälsovådlig (sv)