1 [onlybeforenoun] connected with keeping places clean and healthy to live in, especially by removing human waste:
Overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions led to disease in the refugee camps. * The hut had no cooking or sanitary facilities.
2 clean; not likely to cause health problems
SYNHYGIENIC:
The new houses were more sanitary than the old ones had been.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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