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Definition: Insanitary |
InsanitaryAdjective1. Not sanitary or healthful; "unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "insanitary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Synonyms: InsanitarySynonyms: unhealthful (adj), unsanitary (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: blighted area (building & civil engineering, real estate), dangerous insanitary and nuisance-causing establishments (economics, medicine), depressed housing (building & civil engineering, personal care & hotels), insalubrious zone (building & civil engineering, medicine), insanitary building (building & civil engineering, personal care & hotels), insanitary district (building & civil engineering, real estate), insanitary housing (building & civil engineering), insanitary quarter (building & civil engineering, real estate), insanitary zone (building & civil engineering, medicine), slum area (building & civil engineering, real estate), slum quarter (building & civil engineering, real estate), twilight zone (building & civil engineering, real estate). |
| Antonym: sanitary (adj). (additional references) |
| "Insanitary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Insanitary" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
insanitary | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "insanitary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pashëndët. (various references) | |
Arabic | غير صحي (insalubrious, insanity, sick, sickly, unhygienic, unsanitary). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нехигиеничен (insalubrious, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesome), нездравословен (insalubrious, noisome, noxious, sickly, unhealthy, unsanitary, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Czech | zdravotnì závadný (damaging to one's health), nehygienický (unhygienic, unsanitary). (various references) | |
Danish | usundt kvarter (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), usund bydel (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), slumområde (blighted area, insalubrious zone, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, insanitary zone, slum, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), slumkvarter (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), saneringsområde (insalubrious zone, insanitary zone), saneringsmodent kvarter (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), saneringsmoden bydel (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), farlige usunde og miljoeskadelige virksomheder (dangerous insanitary and nuisance-causing establishments). (various references) | |
Dutch | saneringsrijp gebied (insalubrious zone, insanitary zone), krottenwijk (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, jerry-built town, shanty town, shantytown, slum, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), krottenbuurt (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), gevaarlijke ongezonde en hinderlijke bedrijven (dangerous insanitary and nuisance-causing establishments), aan sanering toezijnde stadsbuurt (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone). (various references) | |
Farsi | مضر (Adverse, Bad, Baneful, Derogatory, Evil, Foe, Harmful, Inadvisable, Inimical, Injurious, Nocuous, Noxious, Obnoxious, Pernicious, Unwholesome), ناسالم (Morbid, Unhealthy, Unsound), غیرصحی . (various references) | |
Finnish | epähygieeninen. (various references) | |
French | insalubre (insalubrious), malsain. (various references) | |
German | unhygienisch (unsanitary, unsanitarily). (various references) | |
Greek | ανθυγιεινόσ (unhealthful, unhealthy, unsanitary, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא תברואתי, לא היגיני. (various references) | |
Hungarian | egészségtelen (unhealthy, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Italian | zona malsana (insalubrious zone, insanitary zone), zona insalubre (insalubrious zone, insanitary zone), stabilimenti pericolanti anti-igienici o privi dei necessari servizi (dangerous insanitary and nuisance-causing establishments), quartiere malsano (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), quartiere delle baracche (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), quartiere dei diseredati (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), quartiere da risanare (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone), bassofondi (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter, twilight zone). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 非衛生 (unhygenic). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひえいせい (unhygenic). (various references) | |
Manx | neuslayntoil (unhealthy, unhealthy of person). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | insanitaryay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insalubre (diseased, insalubrious, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome), doentio (unsound), anti-higiênico (unsanitary, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Romanian | insalubru (insalubrious, sickly, unhealthy, unwholesome), nesãnãtos (insalubrious, sickly, unwholesome), neigienic (unhygienic). (various references) | |
Russian | антисанитарный (unsanitary). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nezdrav (sickly, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Spanish | insalubre (insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome), que es insalubre. (various references) | |
Swedish | ohygienisk (unhygienic, unsanitary), ohälsosam (unhealthy), hälsovådlig. (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่ถูกอนามัย. (various references) | |
Turkish | sağlıksız (dodgy, ill, insalubrious, shaky, sickly, unhealthy, unsanitary, unsound, unwholesome), sağlığa zararlı (deleterious, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шкідливий (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cankerous, damnific, deleterious, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, sickly, unhealthy, wrongful), несприятливий для здоров'я. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không vệ sinh; bẩn thỉu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "insanitary" (pronounced 'In*san"i*ta*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-n-n-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: antiarins. | |
-2 letters: antiarin, insanity, intarsia, sanitary, stannary. | |
-3 letters: antiair, antiars, artisan, inanity, raisiny, tsarina, yantras. | |
-4 letters: antiar, arista, astray, instar, isatin, nairas, raisin, ratans, ratany, riatas, sanity, santir, satiny, strain, tarsia, tiaras, trains, yantra. | |
-5 letters: airns, airts, annas, antas, antis, antra, antsy, arias, artsy, astir, atria, ayins, intis, naans, naira, nanas, naris, nasty, raias, rains. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-n-n-r-s-t-y" | |
+4 letters: transitionally. | |
+5 letters: disinflationary, inspirationally, intransigeantly, unanswerability. | |
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