Synonyms for sanitary
ˈsæn ɪˌtɛr isan·i·ta·ry

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1. sanitary

   Healthy is most correctly used to signify possessing or enjoying health or its results; as, a healthy person; a healthy condition. Healthful signifies promotive of health, tending or adapted to confer, preserve, or promote health; as, a healthful climate. Wholesome food in a healthful climate makes a healthy man. With healthful are ranged the words hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, and wholesome, while the other words are associated with healthy. Salubrious is always used in the physical sense, and is chiefly applied to air or climate. Salutary is now chiefly used in the moral sense; as, a salutary lesson.

   Synonyms:
   hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sound, strong, vigorous, well, wholesome

   Antonyms:
   delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, failing, fainting, fragile, frail, ill, sick, unhealthy, unsound, wasted, weak, worn, worn down, worn out

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1. sanitary, healthfuladjective

   free from filth and pathogens

   "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom"

   Synonyms:
   healthful

   Antonyms:
   unsanitary, unhealthful, insanitary, unhygienic

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1. List of paraphrases for "sanitary":

   health, hygienic, hygiene, sanitation, sanitaire, health-care, animal-health, health-based, health-related

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1. President Kelvin Jeremiah:

   The family had children and the family grew, i want to make clear that this is a family that wanted to be together and our mission is to provide safe sanitary housing.

2. Blairo Maggi:

   This isn't sanitary, this is commercial.

3. Peter Conde:

   We are taking appropriate supplements etcetera to keep immune systems up and I am sure most of the others are doing the same, in terms of sanitary practices, we want to keep hands and bodies clean.

4. Jessica Ilunga:

   The police and the army are not involved in Ebola response activities and their role has never been to enforce sanitary measures.

5. Charles Kuck:

   In some cases, holding cells lack toilet paper or do not provide sanitary pads or tampons for women and girls who are menstruating. this is not new.