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Definition: Unhygienic |
UnhygienicAdjective1. So unclean as to be a likely cause of disease; "pathetic dogs kept in small unhygienic cages". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Unhygienic |
| English words defined with "unhygienic": unhygienically. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Guatemala | Patients suffer from unhygienic living conditions and a shortage of medical professionals. (references) |
Civil Liberties | India | Cramped and unhygienic conditions reportedly exist in some of the camps for Sri Lankan Tamils in Tamil Nadu. (references) |
South Africa | There were credible reports of overcrowded, unhygienic detention facilities; beatings by security personnel in detention centers; and the theft of money and personal possessions from refugees by security personnel. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | Some prisons and many police holding cells were dark, poorly ventilated, and unhygienic. (references) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Mitchell's report concluded that the prison is "a university for crime" due to endemic violence, understaffing, underpaid guards, uncontrolled weapons and drugs, an increase in HIV/AIDS, and prevalence of unhygienic conditions such as missing toilets. (references) | |
Cameroon | U.N. Special Rapporteur Rodley described prison conditions in the country as "universally appalling." Rodley also reported that "overcrowding, unhygienic sanitation, lack of health care, and shortage of food, reportedly are the main failings in the Cameroonian prison system. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unhygienic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unhygienic" is used about 39 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% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unhygienic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i papastër (impure, unclean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير صحي (insalubrious, insanitary, insanity, sick, sickly, unsanitary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нехигиеничен (insalubrious, insanitary, unsanitary, unwholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不卫" (unsanitary, unwholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nehygienický (insanitary, unsanitary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | non hygiénique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nicht hygienisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egészségtelen (insalubrious, insanitary, morbid, morbidity, noisome, unhealthy, unsanitary, unsound, unwholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meeslayntoil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ygienicunhay não higiênico (unsanitary). (various references) neigienic (insanitary). (various references) негигиеничный (unsanitary). (various references) nehigijenski. (various references) ohygienisk (insanitary, unsanitary). (various references) hijenik olmayan. (various references) mất vệ sinh; hại sức khoẻ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Unhygienic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unhygenic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-i-n-n-u-y" | |
-2 letters: hygienic. | |
-3 letters: chining, inching, niching, unhinge. | |
-4 letters: cueing, eching, echini, hieing, hyenic, uncini. | |
-5 letters: chine, cuing, ennui, eying, genic, genii, ginny, gunny, hinge, hinny, hying, icing, neigh, niche, yince. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-h-i-i-n-n-u-y" | |
+5 letters: unchangeability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 68 79 67 69 65 6E 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .... -.--. --. .. . -. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101000 01111001 01100111 01101001 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n h y g i e n i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0068 0079 0067 0069 0065 006E 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807491737571807569 |
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