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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
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.
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'.
Within the minority of nuisance fines for which the ward was recorded, however, there was a striking degree of symmetry across the wards, a difference of only eighteen between the ward with the most insanitary nuisances, Monk Ward, and that with the fewest, Micklegate Ward.
Use insanitary when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Insanitary means Of or pertaining to a lack of sanitation; unsanitary, dirty, unhealthy..
Common synonyms include unhealthful, unsanitary, unhygienic.
Possible antonyms include healthful, sanitary.
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.
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