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 (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衛生／卫生 (zh) (wèishēng), 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)
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• Irish: sláinteach, sláintiúil
• 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)