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hygienic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /hʌɪd͡ʒɪˈɛnɪk/
  • /haɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/
  • (US) audio
  • /haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/

Etymology

From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.

Meanings

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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most hygienic Degree=Sup lexicographic
more hygienic Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

unhygienic · dyshygienic

Deriveds

hygenicist · zoohygienic · nonhygienic · hygienically · antihygienic

Translations (35)

pt higiénico (pertaining to hygiene) · ca higiènic (pertaining to hygiene) · ja 衛生的 (pertaining to hygiene) · da hygiejnisk (pertaining to hygiene) · it igienico (pertaining to hygiene) · nb hygienisk (pertaining to hygiene) · ml ശുചിത്വമുള്ള (pertaining to hygiene) · th อนามัย (pertaining to hygiene) · hu higiénikus (pertaining to hygiene) · kk гигиеналық (pertaining to hygiene) · sv hygienisk (pertaining to hygiene) · be гігіені́чны (pertaining to hygiene) · pl sanitarny (pertaining to hygiene) · fi hygieeninen (pertaining to hygiene) · id higienis (pertaining to hygiene) · ru гигиени́ческий (pertaining to hygiene) · de hygienisch (pertaining to hygiene) · bg хигиеничен (pertaining to hygiene) · cs hygienický (pertaining to hygiene) · ml ശുചിയായ (pertaining to hygiene) · es higiénico (pertaining to hygiene) · fr hygiénique (pertaining to hygiene) · pt higiênico (pertaining to hygiene) · ast hixénicu (pertaining to hygiene) · mi pokekore (pertaining to hygiene) · el υγιεινός (pertaining to hygiene) · gl hixiénico (pertaining to hygiene) · cmn 衛生 /卫生 (pertaining to hygiene) · ga sláinteach (pertaining to hygiene) · uk гігієні́чний (pertaining to hygiene) · ga sláintiúil (pertaining to hygiene) · pl higieniczny (pertaining to hygiene) · eo higiena (pertaining to hygiene) · nl hygiënisch (pertaining to hygiene) · ro igienic (pertaining to hygiene)