sanitary

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: san=i=tar=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

sanitary, a. [L. sanitas health: cf. F. sanitaire. See Sanity.].

 Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory.  [1913 Webster]

Sanitary Commission. See under Commission.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sanitary, adj.
1 of the conditions that affect health, esp. with regard to dirt and infection.
2 hygienic; free from or designed to kill germs, infection, etc.

Idiom

sanitary engineer a person dealing with systems needed to maintain public health. sanitary towel (US napkin) an absorbent pad used during menstruation. sanitary ware porcelain for lavatories etc.

Derivative

sanitarian n. & adj. sanitarily adv. sanitariness n.

Etymology

F sanitaire f. L sanitas: see SANITY

THESAURUS

sanitary

antiseptic, aseptic, beneficial, benign, boiled, bracing, clean, constitutional, decontaminated, disinfected, good, good for, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, hygeian, hygienic, invigorating, pasteurized, prophylactic, refreshing, salubrious, salutary, sterile, sterilized, tonic, uninfected, unpolluted, wholesome

ROGET THESAURUS

sanitary

Salubrity

N salubrity, healthiness, fine air, fine climate, eudiometer, hygiene, valetudinarian, valetudinarianism, sanitarian, sanitarium, sanitOrium, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, wholesome, healthy, healthful, sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious, hygeian, hygienic, innoxious, innocuous, innocent, harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious, sanative, restorative, useful.