hygienic

English

Etymology

From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/, /haɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/, /hʌɪd͡ʒɪˈɛnɪk/

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• Rhymes: -iːnɪk, -ɛnɪk

Adjective

hygienic (comparative more hygienic, superlative most hygienic)

1. Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.
2. (programming slang, of a macro) Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
   • 2014, Colin Jones, Mastering Clojure Macros: Write Cleaner, Faster, Smarter Code, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:

     Of course, anyone with a Scheme background is probably howling at this point because they have a hygienic macro system that makes unintended variable capture impossible. Allowing variable capture when we really, really want it makes Clojure's macro system technically more dangerous than hygienic systems.

Antonyms

• unhygienic
• dyshygienic

Derived terms

• antihygienic
• hygenicist
• hygienically
• nonhygienic
• zoohygienic

Translations

pertaining to hygiene

• Asturian: hixénicu
• Belarusian: гігіені́чны (hihijeníčny)
• Bulgarian: хигиеничен (bg) (higieničen)
• Catalan: higiènic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衛生 / 卫生 (zh) (wèishēng)

• Czech: hygienický (cs)
• Danish: hygiejnisk
• Dutch: hygiënisch (nl)
• Esperanto: higiena
• Finnish: hygieeninen (fi)
• French: hygiénique (fr)
• Galician: hixiénico
• German: hygienisch (de)
• Greek: υγιεινός (el) (ygieinós)
• Hungarian: higiénikus (hu)
• Indonesian: higienis (id)
• Irish: sláinteach, sláintiúil
• Italian: igienico (it)
• Japanese: 衛生的 (ja) (えいせいてき, eiseiteki)
• Kazakh: гигиеналық (gigienalyq)
• Malayalam: ശുചിത്വമുള്ള (śucitvamuḷḷa), ശുചിയായ (śuciyāya)
• Maori: pokekore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hygienisk

• Polish: higieniczny (pl)
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: higiênico (pt)

  European: higiénico (pt)

• Romanian: igienic (ro)
• Russian: гигиени́ческий (ru) (gigijeníčeskij)
• Spanish: higiénico (es)
• Swedish: hygienisk (sv)
• Thai: อนามัย (th) (à-naa-mai)
• Ukrainian: гігієні́чний (hihijeníčnyj)