Antonyms 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.

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

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

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1. sanitary, healthfuladjective

   free from filth and pathogens

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

   Antonyms:
   unsanitary, unhealthful, insanitary, unhygienic

   Synonyms:
   healthful

How to use sanitary in a sentence?

1. Fode Tass Sylla:

   We have to strengthen hospital and health posts in rural areas by training staff and stocking medicines and equipment. We need to reinforce the sanitary service and make sure messages on TV and radio reach the remotest communities.

2. Matt Rimmer:

   When it comes to preventing fatbergs, everyone has a role to play, yes a lot of the fat comes from food outlets but the wipes and sanitary items are far more likely to be from domestic properties. The sewers are not an abyss for household rubbish and our message to everyone is clear – please ‘Bin it – don’t block it’.

3. Claudine André:

   Medical need is going to grow because patients are getting cold, there could be pneumonia. We are trying to improve sanitary conditions by collecting rubbish, but there will be more and more need. There will have to be a re-think. There are more and more tents.

4. 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.

5. Reliever Mike Fiers:

   I just don't want to catch it, just try to be sanitary. Wash your hands after everything you do, be careful and don't put your hands in your eyes or your mouth. Just try to stay as clean as possible.

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