[ adj ] tending to promote or preserve health <adj.all> hygienic habits like using disposable tissueshygienic surroundings with plenty of fresh air
Hygienic \Hy`gi*en"ic\, a. [Cf. F. hygi['e]nique.] Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary.
According to Mayor Saverio Valente, the law was necessary "for reasons not only aesthetic, but hygienic." On the island of Ponza, about 65 miles to the north in the Tyrrhenian Sea, bathers are also barred from strolling the streets in swimsuits.
The non-whites lived better, with better housing and hygienic standards, than blacks anywhere else in Africa, but with little freedom to develop along lines of their own choosing.
But border law-enforcers are now mobile, and - if governments can agree on HQ for Europol organisation - co-operation on terrorism and drugs will improve. Will food become more or less hygienic? More, says Brussels.
His pieces on Andy Warhol and on The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum have a hygienic quality.