Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hygienic

/haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.92 in modern English

Syllables: hy-gien-ic
IPA: /haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.

adj

Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

Slang

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: hygiénique

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

more hygienic (comparative) most hygienic (superlative)

Derived Forms

antihygienic hygenicist hygienically nonhygienic zoohygienic

Synonyms

hygienical

Antonyms

unhygienic dyshygienic

Rhymes With

scenic unhygienic splenic linolenic genic irenic selenic sphenic schizophrenic pathogenic photogenic hellenic

Questions

How do you pronounce hygienic?: The recorded pronunciation is /haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/.
What does hygienic mean?: Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.
Where does hygienic come from?: It is traced to French.

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