Sanitary

Word SANITARY
Character 8
Hyphenation san i ta ry
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Sanitary"

What do we mean by sanitary?

Of or relating to health or the protection of health. adjective

Free from elements, such as filth or pathogens, that endanger health; hygienic. adjective

A public water-closet, urinal, and lavatory. noun

Pertaining to health or hygiene or the preservation of health; hygienic; healthy.

Synonyms Sanitary, Sanatory. These two words are often confounded. Sanitary means “pertaining to health, hygienic”: as, sanitary science; sanitary conditions (which may be good or bad). Sanatory means “serving to heal, therapeutic”: as, sanatory medicines or agencies.

Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic. See the Note under sanatory. adjective

See under Commission. adjective

Of, or relating to health adjective

Clean and free from pathogens; hygienic adjective

Free from filth and pathogens adjective

Sanitary towel.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Sanitary

The word "sanitary" in example sentences

Just so you know, "sanitary" is code for "no men have touched these and we really don't want men to touch our products, ever." ❋ Debontherocks (2010)

People bring up the issue of "how sanitary is that?" ❋ Unknown (2009)

So UNDP is engaged in sanitary provisions, is engaged in building classrooms, dormitories. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The secretary hired twelve cleaning women to maintain sanitary conditions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Comments you're my hero: sanitary is now what i will aim for! clean and neat didn't quite work, so i'll try sanitary now. i'm so the same when it comes to worrying that i might have possibly offended even a stranger! ❋ Unknown (2004)

We put in sanitary conditions - they hadn't them - we clothed them, got new beds. ❋ Unknown (1936)

Again, women, and the best women, are wofully deficient in sanitary knowledge; although it is to women that we must look, first and last, for its application, as far as household hygiene is concerned. ❋ Unknown (1860)

Producer LGI called the sanitary conditions for grapes 'perfect', and described the red wines as showing 'silky tannins and good colour'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It’s much easier to guarantee the right to vote than it is to guarantee the right to live in sanitary, decent housing – conditions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

America, still trying to shrug off England, lagged far behind in what would become known as the sanitary arts. ❋ W. Hodding Carter (2006)

Many women use commercial tampons or pads also called sanitary napkins to catch menstrual blood. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)

These so-called sanitary agents suck from the blood of one person the Filariae, the direct cause of the disease, and transfer them to another. ❋ Various (N/A)

You remember that _Punch_ called the sanitary inspector the insanitary spectre, but the beneficent climate of Ireland fortunately averts all the evils his authority would not be able to arrest if it came to really checking filth. ❋ S.M. Hussey (N/A)

I saw him later on the same afternoon, and he was still twinged; but there had been no escape from following out the straightener's prescription, for the so-called sanitary laws of Erewhon are very rigorous, and unless the straightener was satisfied that his orders had been obeyed, the patient would have been taken to a hospital (as the poor are), and would have been much worse off. ❋ Unknown (1910)

A number of so-called sanitary or hygienic milk pails have been devised for this purpose. ❋ Unknown (1910)

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