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.
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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.
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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