unsanitized
- adjective
- /ʌnˈsænɪˌtaɪzd/
- US
:
no sanitizado
- They may also become contaminated by unsanitized hands and surfaces at harvesting, processing, and preparation facilities.
Examples
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Food prepared with unsanitized utensils can pose serious health risks to consumers.
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Unsanitized water sources can carry harmful bacteria that lead to serious illnesses.
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This process could involve the use of sanitized (i.e., secure) or unsanitized vehicles and movement of bins through one or more security checks.
Academic text (1996) -
They discovered urine and blood-stained chairs, cats that roamed the premises freely, unsanitized instruments that spread venereal diseases, and jars of dismembered babies.
Blog text (17) -
The clinic used unsanitized tools during the procedure, which alarmed the patients.
Synonyms
525
1.0
Not clean or covered with dirt
16
3.7
Not clean and likely to cause illness
8
1.0
Not washed with soap and water
3
4.8
Not clean and likely to make people sick
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6.3
Not made free of germs
1
5.5
Not free from germs
1
6.9
Dirty and likely to cause disease
Not completely free from germs
Antonyms
How Sanitized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unsanitized comes from un- + sanitize, and sanitize comes from the old Latin root sanus meaning 'healthy', the same root you see in sanitary. To sanitize is to make something clean and free of germs, so unsanitized means 'not cleaned' or not made safe from germs.