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unsanitary
[uhn-san-i-ter-ee] 
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unsanitary
[uhn-san-i-ter-ee]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty, unclean |
| Synonyms: | contaminated, dusty, filthy, foul, grimy, messy, muddy, polluted, rancid, rank, rotten, sloppy, soiled, stained, stinking, sullied, tarnished, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic |
| Main Entry: | unhealthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad in effect on well-being |
| Synonyms: | baneful, chancy, corrupt, corrupting, dangerous, degenerate, degrading, deleterious, demoralizing, detrimental, harmful, hazardous, insalubrious, jeopardous, morbid, nefarious, negative, noisome, noxious, perilous, perverse, poisonous, risky, rotten, treacherous, undesirable, unhealthful, unsanitary, unsound, unwholesome, villainous, virulent, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good, healthy |
| Main Entry: | unhealthful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unwholesome |
| Synonyms: | contaminated, dangerous, detrimental, harmful, insalubrious, noxious, toxic, unhealthy, unsalutary, unsanitary |
| Antonyms: | healthful, healthy, salubrious, salutary, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | uncleanly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty |
| Synonyms: | 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, raunchy*, scummy, scuzzy, slatternly, slimy, sloppy*, slovenly, smudged, smutty, soiled, sooty, spattered, spotted, squalid, stained, straggly, sullied, unclean, undusted, unhygienic, unkempt, unlaundered, unsanitary, unsightly, unswept, untidy, unwashed, yucky |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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