hygienic

English

Etymology

From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /haɪˈdʒiːnɪk/, /haɪˈdʒɛnɪk/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -iːnɪk, -ɛnɪk

Adjective

hygienic (comparative more hygienic, superlative most hygienic)

Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary.
(computing, slang, of a macro) Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

Antonyms

unhygienic

Derived terms

hygienically

Translations

pertaining to hygiene

Bulgarian: хигиеничен (bg) (higieničen)
Catalan: higiènic
Chinese:
Mandarin: 衛生 (zh), 卫生 (zh) (wèishēng)
Czech: hygienický (cs) m
Danish: hygiejnisk
Dutch: hygiënisch (nl)
Finnish: hygieeninen (fi)
French: hygiénique (fr) m or f
Galician: hixiénico m, hixiénica f
German: hygienisch (de)
Hungarian: higiénikus (hu)

Irish: sláinteach
Italian: igienico (it) m
Japanese: 衛生的 (えいせいてき, eiseiteki)
Maori: pokekore
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hygienisk
Polish: higieniczny (pl)
Portuguese: higiênico (pt) m
Romanian: igienic (ro)
Russian: гигиени́ческий (ru) (gigijeníčeskij)
Spanish: higiénico m
Swedish: hygienisk (sv)

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