sanitary
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2.8
- adjective
- /ˈsænɪˌtɛri/
:
sanitario
- Everyone should have access to clean and sanitary drinking water.
- sanitary landfill
- sanitary sewer
- sanitary facilities
They're pretty cheap and more sanitary than your current approach.
- They're pretty cheap and more sanitary than your current approach.
- But yes, I've ordered like nursing pads, sanitary pads, Muslims baby grows, all kinds of nice things.
- I want to keep things sanitary and it's just my bathrooms needing a little clean.
- If you're in India and you're eating food that's got a fair amount of microbes in it, it's less, you know, sanitary.
- Do you remember a sanitary advert?
- Because I think that's maybe not a little sanitary, but I haven't died yet.
- You can make cut the bunch of steel, make it sanitary and sell it Exactly.
- Up yours with gauze 'cause at least he wants to be sanitary.
Examples
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Grants are contingent upon improving or adding sanitary facilities such as running water.
Academic text (1994) -
I want to keep things sanitary and it's just my bathrooms needing a little clean.
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And it seems like it's more sanitary this way.
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We have five sanitary units.
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It's much easier to guarantee the right to vote than it is to guarantee the right to live in sanitary, decent housing conditions.
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Generally speaking, the sanitary quality of foods in Mexico is far from adequate.
Academic text (1997) -
Furthermore, he detailed the rules and sanitary measures needed to contain the epidemic.
Academic text (2013) -
Reducing human foodborne illnesses starts with keeping animals in healthy, sanitary conditions and improving pathogen detection methods.
Academic text (1996) -
Opponents of the combined sewer system advocated a separate sewer system to promote stronger sanitary practices.
Academic text (2011) -
It's important to maintain sanitary conditions in hospitals to prevent infections.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Free from dirt or harmful things
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5.1
Very clean and fresh, like new
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4.4
Completely free from germs
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5.9
Completely clean and neat with no marks or stains
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3.6
Clean in a way that stops germs and sickness
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3.9
Made clean so it is free from germs
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4.1
Very clean and tidy with no dirt or marks
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.0
A place where trash is buried and covered with earth to reduce smell and pollution
How Sanitary
Surface Forms
Morphology
sanitary = sanit + ary
The adjective is built with the productive suffix '-ary' meaning 'relating to', which is transparent, but the root 'sanit' is a bound combining form (not a standalone English word), so learners who do not know related nouns like 'sanitation' may not reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
The word sanitary comes from the Latin root sanitas, which means 'health', and it is the same root in sane and sanitation. So something sanitary is kept clean to protect people's health.