ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Insanitary

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Insanitary is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to a lack of sanitation; unsanitary, dirty, unhealthy.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a lack of sanitation; unsanitary, dirty, unhealthy.

Example Sentences

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.
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.
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'.

Synonyms for insanitary

Depending on context, synonyms include unhealthful, unsanitary, unhygienic.

Antonyms for insanitary

Common opposites include healthful, sanitary.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unsanitary, unhygienic, unhealthful, insalubrious, unhealthy, substandard.

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