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    sanitary
    /ˈsanɪt(ə)ri/

    adjective

    • 1. relating to the conditions that affect hygiene and health, especially the supply of sewage facilities and clean drinking water: "a sanitary engineer"

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  3. Sanitary means clean and not dangerous for your health, or protecting health by removing dirt and waste, especially human waste. Learn more about the word, its usage, synonyms, and related topics from Cambridge Dictionary.

  4. Learn the meaning of sanitary as an adjective related to health, cleanliness, or waste disposal. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related phrases of sanitary.

  5. of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc. Synonyms: unpolluted, antiseptic, germfree, clean. Antonyms: septic, polluted, unhealthy, unwholesome, unclean. favorable to health; free from dirt, bacteria, etc.: a sanitary washroom.

  6. clean and not dangerous for your health, or protecting health by removing dirt and waste, especially human waste: Cholera thrives in poor sanitary conditions. There were only very basic sanitary facilities on the site. His kitchen didn't look very sanitary (= clean).

  7. Sanitary means concerned with keeping things clean and healthy, especially by providing a sewage system and a clean water supply. It also means free from dirt, germs, etc; hygienic. See synonyms, examples, and word origin of sanitary.

  8. Sanitary implies the absence of germs as well as a clean appearance — you probably hope that your favorite restaurant's kitchen is sanitary, and your visiting friends will appreciate your bathroom being sanitary as well.

  9. Sanitary means of or relating to health or the protection of health, or free from elements that endanger health. Find synonyms, antonyms, translations and examples of sanitary in different contexts.