hygienic

hygienic

English

Etymology

From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈdʒiːnɪk/, /haɪˈdʒɛnɪk/

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• Rhymes: -iːnɪk, -ɛnɪk

Adjective

hygienic (comparative more hygienic, superlative most hygienic)

1. Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary.
2. (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)