What does sanitarium mean?
Sanitarium means (US) Alternative form of sanatorium..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˌsæn.ɪˈtɛəɹ.i.əm/ · noun
(US) Alternative form of sanatorium..
[H]e was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
Treatment in tuberculosis sanitariums at the expense of the public might be warranted.
Use sanitarium when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sanitarium means (US) Alternative form of sanatorium..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[H]e was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.