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Definition: Unsanitary |
UnsanitaryAdjective1. 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 "unsanitary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
Synonyms: UnsanitarySynonyms: insanitary (adj), unhealthful (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: substandard housing (building & civil engineering, personal care & hotels), unsanitary dwelling (building & civil engineering, personal care & hotels), unsanitary housing (building & civil engineering). |
| Antonym: sanitary (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unsanitary |
| English words defined with "unsanitary": childbed fever ♦ dirtiness ♦ insanitary ♦ puerperal fever ♦ uncleanness, unhealthful. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unsanitary": INSPECTOR, AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES, INSPECTOR, INDUSTRIAL WASTE ♦ loss-control technician ♦ miner's anemia ♦ QUALITY CONTROL INSPECTOR ♦ safety engineer, SAFETY INSPECTOR, SUPERVISOR, MALTED MILK. (references) |
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 | [Public Health: Unsanitary area in Southhampton, England]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Greek refugees who were driven out of eastern Macedonia into Serbia, near Nish, by the Bulgars, now returning to their homes, but living while here in abandoned buildings in very bad state of repair, and most unsanitary. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Unsanitary privy on sub-marginal farm. Burlington County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Red-eared slider" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Trachemys scripta elegans Sliders, especially the red-eared, have been heavily collected for the pet trade and are sold by the millions in pet shops across the world. Because of unsanitary conditions and a lack of knowledge on turtle care, few survive fo" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Like ascarids, people pick up hookworms as a result of unsanitary conditions. (references) | |
Yes. Epidemics of typhus and louse-borne relapsing fever have been caused by body lice. Though typhus is no longer widespread, epidemics still occur during times of war, civil unrest, natural disasters, in refugee camps, and prisons where people live crowded together in unsanitary conditions. (references) | ||
Business | Most of Vietnam’s 800 hospitals are generally unsanitary and overcrowded with patient occupancy rates that have fluctuated up to 120% of the bed capacity. (references) | |
Children | India | In some cases, the Commission had acted to transfer oversight of homes to private voluntary organizations "after the (state) government failed to provide a healthy environment to children in these homes." In its February 2000 concluding observations regarding the country, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern about "numerous reports of routine ill-treatment, corporal punishment, torture and sexual abuse of children in detention facilities, and alleged instances of killings of children living and/or working on the streets by law enforcement officials." The Committee also expressed concern "at the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions of detention of children, including detention with adults; lack of application and enforcement of existing juvenile justice legislation; lack of training for professionals, including the judiciary, lawyers and law enforcement officers, in relation to the Convention (on the Rights of the Child), other existing international standards and the Juvenile Justice Act; and the lack of measures and enforcement thereof to prosecute officials who violate these provisions." The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act prohibits child marriage, a traditional practice in the northern part of the country. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Colombia | Many displaced persons settle on the outskirts of Bogota, Medellin, and Cartagena, where conditions are overcrowded and unsanitary, and smaller municipalities have been overwhelmed by the need for services. (references) |
Human Rights | Suriname | In addition, these older prisons are unsanitary. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | Usually it is performed on girls between the ages of 4 and 7 by traditional practitioners in improvised, unsanitary conditions, which cause severe pain, trauma, and risk of infection to the child. (references) |
Women | Guinea | Despite diseases resulting from crude and unsanitary surgical instruments and deaths resulting from the practice, the tradition continues, seriously affecting many women's lives. (references) |
Worker Rights | Dominican Republic | Conditions in clandestine factories are generally poor, unsanitary, and often dangerous. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unsanitary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsanitary" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
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 |
article in issue practice restaurant unsanitary | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unsanitary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | johigjienik. (various references) | |
Arabic | غير وقائي, غير صحي (insalubrious, insanitary, insanity, sick, sickly, unhygienic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нехигиеничен (insalubrious, insanitary, unhygienic, unwholesome), нездравословен (insalubrious, insanitary, noisome, noxious, sickly, unhealthy, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不卫生 (unhygienic, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Czech | nezdravotnický, nehygienický (insanitary, unhygienic). (various references) | |
Danish | usund bolig (hovel, slum, slum dwelling, substandard housing, unsanitary dwelling, unsanitary housing), saneringsmoden bolig (hovel, slum, slum dwelling, substandard housing, unsanitary dwelling, unsanitary housing). (various references) | |
Dutch | ongezonde woning (substandard housing, unsanitary dwelling, unsanitary housing). (various references) | |
French | malsain (unhealthy, unwell, unwholesome), insalubre (unhealthy). (various references) | |
German | unhygienisch (insanitary, unhygienic, unsanitarily), ungesund (harmful, insalubrious, insanitary, unhealthful, unhealthily, unhealthy, unsoundly, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Greek | ανθυγιεινόσ (insanitary, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome), ανθυγεινός (unhealthy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egészségtelen (insalubrious, insanitary, morbid, morbidity, noisome, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsound, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Italian | alloggio insalubre (substandard housing, unsanitary dwelling, unsanitary housing), abitazione malsana (substandard housing, unsanitary dwelling, unsanitary housing), abitazione antigienica (substandard housing, unsanitary dwelling, unsanitary housing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不衛生 (unsanitary condition). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふえいせい (unsanitary condition). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anitaryunsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pouco higiênico (unhealthy), não higiênico (unhygienic), anti-higiênico (insanitary, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Russian | негигиеничный (unhygienic). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nesanitaran. (various references) | |
Spanish | malsano (morbid, sickly, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome), antihigiénico. (various references) | |
Swedish | ohygienisk (insanitary, unhygienic), ohälsosam (insalubrious, insanitary, unhealthy, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Turkish | sağlıksız (dodgy, ill, insalubrious, insanitary, shaky, sickly, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome), sağlıkla ilgili olmayan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | антисанітарний (unhealthy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thiếu vệ sinh, không hợp vệ sinh (unwholesome), hại cho sức khoẻ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Unsanitary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nusantara. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unsanitary" (pronounced unsa"nute'rē) |
| 8 | -s a" n u t e' r ē | sanitary. |
| 7 | -a" n u t e' r ē | interplanetary, planetary. |
| 6 | -n u t e' r ē | dignitary, monetary, unitary. |
| 5 | -u t e' r ē | budgetary, cemetery, cometary, depositary, dietary, hereditary, military, nonmilitary, paramilitary, pituitary, proprietary, salutary, secretary, solitary, tributary, undersecretary. |
| 4 | -t e' r ē | commentary, dysentery, fragmentary, involuntary, momentary, monastery, sedentary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, centenary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, Dewberry, dictionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, obituary, ordinary, pecuniary, preliminary, primary, probationary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, sanctuary, savagery, secondary, semilegendary, seminary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, unnecessary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-n-n-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: insurant, sanitary, stannary. | |
-3 letters: annuity, antiars, anurans, anurias, artisan, inturns, nutrias, saurian, tsarina, unitary, uranias, yantras, yautias. | |
-4 letters: antiar, anuran, anuria, arista, astray, aurist, instar, inturn, inurns, nairas, nutria, ratans, ratany, riatas, ruanas, rutins, sanity, santir, santur, satiny, strain, suntan, synura, tarsia, tiaras, trains, urania, yantra, yautia. | |
-5 letters: airns, airts, annas, antas, antis, antra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-n-n-r-s-t-u-y" | |
+3 letters: saturnalianly. | |
+5 letters: unanswerability. | |
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