unhygienic
adjective
unhygienic is an adjective meaning “Lacking hygiene; unclean” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-H-Y-G-I-E-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does unhygienic mean?
adjective
- 1
Lacking hygiene; unclean.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of unhygienic
- more unhygienic comparative
- most unhygienic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is unhygienic?
Unhygienic appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Unhygienic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense lacking hygiene:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | unhygienisch |
| Portuguese | anti-higiénico, anti-higiênico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does unhygienic come from?
From un- + hygienic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).