| 单词 | sanitary |
| 释义 | sanitary (once / 1435 pages) adj When something's sanitary, it's extremely clean. It's important for hospitals to be sanitary. The adjective sanitary is useful when you need something stronger than just "clean." Sanitary implies the absence of germs as well as a clean appearance — you probably hope that your favorite restaurant's kitchen is sanitary, and your visiting friends will appreciate your bathroom being sanitary as well. The origin of sanitary is the Latin word sanitas, or "health," from the root sanus, which means both "healthy" and "sane." WORD FAMILYsanitary: insanitary, sanitarily, sanitariness, unsanitary+/unsanitary: unsanitariness USAGE EXAMPLESEmerald Coast Utilities Authority issued a notice of a sanitary sewer overflow caused by a 15-minute loss of power from a lightning strike. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) According to the document, the agreements were primarily involving baby diapers but also involved other products in the sanitary business. Reuters(Dec 20, 2016) Families are housed in tents, often unheated, and sanitary facilities are shared in the makeshift centers; in some, women share shower facilities with men. Los Angeles Times(Dec 13, 2016) adj free from filth and pathogens sanitary conditions for preparing food a sanitary washroom Syn|Ant healthful hygienic, hygienical tending to promote or preserve health insanitary, unhealthful, unsanitary not sanitary or healthful unhygienicunclean and constituting a likely cause of disease |
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