Word Meanings - INSALUTARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health. 2. Not tending to safety; productive of evil.
Related words: (words related to INSALUTARY)
- TENDER
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes - SAFETY BICYCLE
A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear wheel by a multiplying gear. - TENDERLY
In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer. - TENDANCE
1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak. - TENDERNESS
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy. - HEALTHFULLY
In health; wholesomely. - UNFAVORABLE
Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv. - HEALTHLESS
1. Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor. 2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome. - HEALTHFUL
1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. The healthful - TENDRESSE
Tender feeling; fondness. - TENDON
A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally - HEALTHFULNESS
The state of being healthful. - SAFETY CHAIN
A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body in sluing. An auxiliary watch chain, secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch. A chain of sheet metal links - HEALTHSOME
Wholesome; salubrious. "Healthsome air." Shak. - TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey. - TENDRIL
A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as - TENDER-HEARTED
Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7. - HEALTHWARD
In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency. - TENDRON
A tendril. Holland. - TEND
To make a tender of; to offer or tender. - INTENDENT
See N - INTENDIMENT
Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser. - OBTEND
1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden - INSALUTARY
1. Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health. 2. Not tending to safety; productive of evil. - EXTENDLESSNESS
Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale. - PRETENDER
The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident - ENTEND
To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer. - PRETENDANT
A pretender; a claimant. - PORTEND
to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. - UPPERTENDOM
The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. - EXTENDANT
Displaced. Ogilvie.