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Synonyms for hygienic

Most common

sanitary healthy healthful

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Adjective

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.

Related words

Word family
hygenicist

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Hygienic, Healthful, Salubrious, Salutary, Sanitary or Wholesome?

With healthful are ranged the words hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, and wholesome, while the other words are associated with healthy.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • healthy Sports make us healthy in mind as well as in body.
  • sanitary Do you prefer using sanitary napkins or tampons?
  • healthful My goats are more healthful than this man's oxen will ever be.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
hygienicfalling
healthyrising
sanitaryfalling
healthfulsteady
hygienicalsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

7 letters
healthy2
8 letters
sanitary4
9 letters
healthful2
10 letters
hygienical

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (healthy2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
hygiénique
Italiano
igienico
Deutsch
hygienisch