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insanitary

insanitary adjective: of or pertaining to a lack of sanitation; unsanitary, dirty, unhealthy.

Adjective

insanitary (comparative more insanitary, superlative most insanitary)

  1. Of or pertaining to a lack of sanitation; unsanitary, dirty, unhealthy.
    • The important duty of getting rid of uninhabitable houses or insanitary property devolves on the sanitary authority, and requires to be carried out with discrimination.1892 May 14, The Lancet, page 1089
    • The insanitary house displayed poor heating and plumbing, arsenical wallpaper and, in the basement area at the front of the house, 'a large wooden dustbin, placed as is frequently the case, where its malodorous and often dangerous contents must be a constant nuisance on the premises'.2014, Lee Jackson, Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth, page 17

insanitary meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

insanitary in Tamil

துப்புரவற்ற, தூய்மையற்ற, தூய்மையின்மை

insanitary in Urdu

گندا, مضر, ناصاف

insanitary in Bengali

স্বাস্থ্যব্যবস্থার অভাব সংক্রান্ত, অস্বাস্থ্যকর, নোংরা

insanitary in Malayalam

unsanitary, unhygienic, unhealthy
അനാരോഗ്യകരമായ, വൃത്തിയില്ലാത്ത, അശുചിയായ, വൃത്തിഹീനമായ, വെടിപ്പില്ലാത്ത, ശുചിയാക്കാത്ത

Forms of insanitary

comparativemore insanitary
superlativemost insanitary

Origin of insanitary

From in- + sanitary.

Words formed from insanitary

Questions about insanitary

What does insanitary mean?
Insanitary means of or pertaining to a lack of sanitation; unsanitary, dirty, unhealthy.
What is insanitary in Tamil?
Insanitary in Tamil is துப்புரவற்ற, தூய்மையற்ற, தூய்மையின்மை. See Insanitary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is insanitary?
Insanitary is an adjective.

Words near insanitary in the dictionary

  1. insanifies
  2. insanify
  3. insanifying
  4. insanitarily
  5. insanitariness
  6. insanitary
  7. insanitation
  8. insanitations
  9. insanities
  10. insanity
  11. insanize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: insanitary (page history and authors); insanitary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insanitary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insanitary (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insanitary (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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