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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean, germ-free |
| Synonyms: | healthful, healthy, hygienic, prophylactic, purified, salubrious, sanative, sterile, uncontaminated, uninfected, unpolluted, unsullied, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | dirty, diseased, polluted, unsanitary |
| Main Entry: | clean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not dirty; uncluttered |
| Synonyms: | apple-pie order, blank, bright, cleansed, clear, delicate, dirtless, elegant, faultless, flawless, fresh, graceful, hygienic, immaculate, laundered, neat, neat as a button, neat as a pin, orderly, pure, sanitary, shining, simple, snowy, sparkling, speckless, spic and span, spotless, squeaky, stainless, taintless, tidy, trim, unblemished, unpolluted, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, vanilla, washed, well-kept, white |
| Antonyms: | cluttered, dirty, filthy, foul, polluted, stained, tarnished |
| Main Entry: | clean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sterile |
| Synonyms: | antiseptic, aseptic, clarified, decontaminated, disinfected, hygienic, pure, purified, sanitary, sterilized, unadulterated, uncontaminated, uninfected, unpolluted, unsullied, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | adulterated, dirty, impure, unsterile |
| Main Entry: | harmless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not injurious or dangerous |
| Synonyms: | controllable, disarmed, gentle, guiltless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, inoperative, kind, manageable, naive, nonirritating, nontoxic, painless, paper-tiger, powerless, pussycat, reliable, safe, sanitary, simple, soft*, softie, sound, sure, trustworthy, unobjectionable, unoffensive |
| Antonyms: | bad, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, injurious, sinful, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | healthful/healthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good for one's wellness |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, aiding, aseptic, beneficial, benign, body-building, bracing, cathartic, clean, compensatory, conducive, corrective, desirable, disease-free, energy-giving, fresh, harmless, healing, health-giving, helpful, hygienic, innocuous, invigorating, mitigative, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, profitable, pure, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanatory, sanitary, stimulating, sustaining, tonic, unadulterated, unpolluted, untainted, useful, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | bad, corrupt, diseased, noxious, rotten, sickening, unhealthful, unhealthy |
| Main Entry: | hygienic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean |
| Synonyms: | aseptic, disinfected, germ-free, good, healthful, healthy, pure, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, sanitary, sterile, uncontaminated, uninfected, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | contaminated, dirty, diseased, filthy, foul, infected, unclean, unpure, unsanitary, unsterile |
| Main Entry: | pristine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean, pure; primeval |
| Synonyms: | earliest, early, first, immaculate, intact, natural, original, primal, purified, refined, sanitary, snowy, spotless, stainless, sterile, sterilized, taintless, unadulterated, uncorrupted, undebased, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, untouched, virginal, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | pure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean, uncontaminated |
| Synonyms: | disinfected, germ-free, immaculate, intemerate, pasteurized, pristine, purified, refined, sanitary, snowy, spotless, stainless, sterile, sterilized, taintless, unadulterated, unblemished, undebased, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | contaminated, dirty, polluted, tainted |
| Main Entry: | salubrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | health-giving |
| Synonyms: | beneficial, good, healthful, healthy, hygienic, invigorating, salutary, sanitary, wholesome |
| Notes: | salacious means characterized by lust or suggestive of or tending to moral looseness, while salubrious means favorable to health or promoting health |
| Antonyms: | insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome |
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