adj
Meaning 1
Lacking hygiene; unclean.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unhygienic
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rhymes with -iːnɪk
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
unclean and constituting a likely cause of disease
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- pathetic dogs kept in small unhygienic cages
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English hygienic English unhygienic From un- + hygienic.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: antihigiènic — lacking hygiene
- Danish: uhygiejnisk — lacking hygiene
- Finnish: epähygieeninen — lacking hygiene
- German: unhygienisch — lacking hygiene
- Kazakh: гигиеналық емес (gigienalyq emes) — lacking hygiene
- Kazakh: гигиенаға жатпайтын (gigienağa jatpaityn) — lacking hygiene
- Polish: niehigieniczny — lacking hygiene
- Polish: antysanitarny — lacking hygiene
- Portuguese: anti-higiénico — lacking hygiene
- Portuguese: anti-higiênico — lacking hygiene
- Romanian: antiigienic — lacking hygiene
- Russian: негигиеничный (negigijeničnyj) — lacking hygiene
- Russian: негигиени́ческий (negigijeníčeskij) — lacking hygiene
- Welsh: anlanwaith — lacking hygiene