Antonyms for unhygienic
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : hahy-jee-en-ik, hahy-jen-, -jee-nik |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌhaɪ dʒiˈɛn ɪk, haɪˈdʒɛn-, -ˈdʒi nɪk |
Definition of unhygienic
Origin :- 1883, from un- (1) "not" + hygenic.
- As in unsanitary : adj dirty, unclean
- As in uncleanly : adj dirty
- As in dirty : adj soiled, unclean
- The material cannot be cleaned, and as a collector of dust is most unhygienic.
- Extract from : « The Story of Silk » by Sara Ware Bassett
- The time had been when she would at once have denounced the room as overcrowded and unhygienic.
- Extract from : « Gray youth » by Oliver Onions
- Diphtheria is not directly caused by unhygienic surroundings.
- Extract from : « Essays In Pastoral Medicine » by Austin Malley
- You—you don't think it will be unhygienic for him to sleep with me?
- Extract from : « Adventures of Bindle » by Herbert George Jenkins
- It is not ideal if it is unethical, unhygienic, or unæsthetic.
- Extract from : « Sex-education » by Maurice Alpheus Bigelow
- And Dorothy could well afford it, if one might judge of her fortune from her unhygienic but expensive dresses.
- Extract from : « Gray youth » by Oliver Onions
- Tears are as little known among the first-class beings of Thule as is the gross and unhygienic kiss.
- Extract from : « The New Gulliver and Other Stories » by Barry Pain
- These unsanitary and unhygienic conditions have dwarfed the tropical dwellers in body and in mind.
- Extract from : « The Popular Science Monthly, September, 1900 » by Various
- Folding beds and lounges even of the best type are unhygienic, usually too low for the patient's comfort, and often insecure.
- Extract from : « American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick » by Jane A. Delano
- One morning, for all he knows, it may come from a model dairy farm, and the next from the most unhygienic surroundings imaginable.
- Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 » by Various
Synonyms for unhygienic
- bedraggled
- begrimed
- black
- contaminated
- cruddy
- crummy
- defiled
- disarrayed
- dishabille
- disheveled
- dreggy
- dungy
- dusty
- filthy
- foul
- fouled
- greasy
- grimy
- grubby
- grungy
- icky
- lousy
- messy
- mucky
- muddy
- mung
- murky
- nasty
- pigpen
- polluted
- rancid
- rank
- raunchy
- rotten
- scummy
- scuzzy
- slatternly
- slimy
- sloppy
- slovenly
- smudged
- smutty
- soiled
- sooty
- spattered
- spotted
- squalid
- stained
- stinking
- straggly
- sullied
- tarnished
- unclean
- undusted
- unhealthful
- unhealthy
- unhygienic
- unkempt
- unlaundered
- unsanitary
- unsightly
- unswept
- untidy
- unwashed
- yucky
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