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Salubrious vs. Lugubrious — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Salubrious and Lugubrious

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Salubrious

Health-giving; healthy
Odours of far less salubrious origin

Lugubrious

Looking or sounding sad and dismal
His face looked even more lugubrious than usual

Salubrious

Conducive or favorable to health or well-being.

Lugubrious

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Salubrious

Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.

Lugubrious

Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
His client’s lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words.
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Salubrious

Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.

Lugubrious

Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality.

Salubrious

Promoting health; healthful;
A healthy diet
Clean healthy air
Plenty of healthy sleep
Healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy
The salubrious mountain air and water
Carrots are good for you

Lugubrious

Excessively mournful

Salubrious

Favorable to health of mind or body;
Not the most salubrious campsite
One of the less salubrious suburbs

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