The meaning of Unhygienic

adjective

Having been made impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.

Usage examples:

Contaminated blood products

verb

Make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.

Usage examples:

The site was found to be contaminated by radioactivity

adjective

Poisonous or not pure

Usage examples:

The infection was probably caused by swimming in contaminated water/water contaminated with sewage.…

adjective

Causing harm or damage.

Usage examples:

Divorce is assumed to have deleterious effects on children

adjective

Tending to cause harm.

Usage examples:

Recent policies have been detrimental to the interests of many old people

adjective

Causing harm or damage

Usage examples:

These chemicals have a detrimental effect/impact on the environment., their decision could be detri…

adjective

Covered or marked with an unclean substance.

Usage examples:

A tray of dirty cups and saucers

adverb

Used for emphasis.

Usage examples:

A dirty great slab of stone

verb

Make dirty.

Usage examples:

She didn't like him dirtying her nice clean towels

adjective

Disgustingly dirty.

Usage examples:

A filthy hospital with no sanitation

adverb

To an extreme extent.

Usage examples:

He has become filthy rich

adjective

Extremely dirty

Usage examples:

Trucks poured out clouds of filthy, black smoke., there were beggars in the streets and filth every…

abbreviation

Folio.

abbreviation

Flying officer.

adjective

Carrying germs; contaminated or infected.

Usage examples:

Buttons of elevators are extremely germy

adjective

Causing or likely to cause harm.

Usage examples:

The ozone layer blocks the harmful rays from the sun

adjective

Causing harm

Usage examples:

Harmful to this group of chemicals is known to be harmful to people with asthma.

adjective

Mixed with foreign matter; adulterated.

Usage examples:

An impure form of heroin

adjective

Mixed with other substances and therefore harmful or lower in quality

Usage examples:

Impure drinking water, impurities are removed from the blood by the kidneys.

verb

(of insects or animals) be present (in a place or site) in large numbers, typically so as to cause damage or disease.

Usage examples:

The house is infested with cockroaches

verb

Past simple and past participle of infest

Usage examples:

The barn was infested with rats.

adjective

(of a place) seedy and run-down; unwholesome.

Usage examples:

A poor area full of insalubrious hotels

adjective

Unpleasant, dirty, or likely to cause disease

adjective

So dirty or germ-ridden as to be a danger to health.

Usage examples:

Insanitary conditions

adjective

→  unsanitary

adjective

Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant.

Usage examples:

They were overcome by the noxious fumes

adjective

(esp. of a gas) poisonous or harmful

Usage examples:

Noxious gases

adjective

Contaminated with harmful or poisonous substances.

Usage examples:

One of europe's most polluted rivers

verb

Contaminate (water, the air, etc.) with harmful or poisonous substances.

Usage examples:

The explosion polluted the town with dioxin

adjective

Affected by pollution

Usage examples:

The river in caracas is heavily polluted., new particles are formed in the polluted air of major ci…

adjective

Dirty.

Usage examples:

The firm was fined for operating in unclean premises

adjective

Not clean or not pure and therefore likely to cause disease

Usage examples:

Unclean water, unclean kitchens, unclean thoughts/practices

adjective

Harmful to health.

Usage examples:

An unhealthy diet

adjective

Ill or appearing to be ill

Usage examples:

It’s unhealthy to eat fatty foods all the time.

adjective

Not sanitary.

Usage examples:

The unsanitary conditions in the orphanage

adjective

Dirty, esp. in a way that is dangerous to health

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Unsanitary conditions

adjective

Not characterized by or conducive to health or moral well-being.

Usage examples:

The use of the living room as sleeping quarters led to unwholesome crowding

adjective

Not good for you, and likely to have a bad effect on your life either physically, morally, or emotionally

Usage examples:

She stays up all night in unwholesome places., we avoid alcohol, tobacco, and other unwholesome thi…