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hygeian

hygeian adjective: healthy.

Adjective (1)

hygeian (comparative more hygeian, superlative most hygeian)

  1. healthy
  2. sanitary
    • The waters of these springs have long been justly celebrated for their medicinal and exhilarating qualities; and a vast number from all parts of the United States, and even from foreign countries, resort to them, either for health, or to join the gay and fashionable throng who hold an annual...1839, The New England Gazetteer

Adjective (2) capitalized: Hygeian

Hygeian (comparative more Hygeian, superlative most Hygeian)

  1. Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health.
    • In the Hygeian school of Greek medicine, based on the teachings of Hippocrates, health was viewed as a natural state of the body.2000, Cai Song, Fundamentals of Psychoneuroimmunology

Forms of hygeian

comparativemore hygeian
superlativemost hygeian
comparativemore Hygeian
superlativemost Hygeian
alternative formhygeian
alternative formHygieian

Origin of hygeian

From Hygeia + -an.

Questions about hygeian

What does hygeian mean?
Hygeian means healthy.
What part of speech is hygeian?
Hygeian is an adjective.

Words near hygeian in the dictionary

  1. hyfrecator
  2. hyfrecators
  3. hygeen
  4. hygeens
  5. Hygeia
  6. hygeian
  7. hygeiolatry
  8. hygeiotherapy
  9. hygeist
  10. hygeistic
  11. hygeists

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