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[syn: sanitary, healthful]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sanitary \San"i*ta*ry\, 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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sanitary
adj 1: free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for
preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom" [syn: sanitary,
healthful] [ant: insanitary, unhealthful,
unsanitary]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "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