hygienic

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/
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/haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/ · /haɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/ · /hʌɪd͡ʒɪˈɛnɪk/

Definition of hygienic

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

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

  1. Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.
  2. (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.”

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Etymology

From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.

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