unhygienic

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   unclean and constituting a likely cause of disease

   “pathetic dogs kept in small unhygienic cages”

   Similarunsanitary

Questions about unhygienic

What does unhygienic mean?

unhygienic means "unclean and constituting a likely cause of disease".

How many syllables are in unhygienic?

unhygienic has 4 syllables and divides as un-hy-gie-nic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is unhygienic a common word?

unhygienic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.