Unhealthy
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English
Adjective
Unhealthy (comparative unhealthier, superlative unhealthiest)
- characterized by, or conducive to poor health
- The villagers lived in unhealthy surroundings.
- sick or ill
- He was an unhealthy child.
- tending to corrupt
- He liked unhealthy reading material.
- characterized by disturbed mental health
- He had an unhealthy interest in fire.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Adverbs for Unhealthy
definitely; terribly; curiously; naturally; apparently; malarially; obviously; manifestly; unfortunately; wickedly; oddly; positively; miserably; wretchedly; congenitally.
Thesaurus
ailing, bad, bad for, cachectic, chancy, contaminated, corrupt, damaging, dangerous, debilitated, degenerate, depraved, destructive, detrimental, diseased, doubtful, drained, dubious, enervated, exhausted, failing, feeble, flagitious, foul, frail, hairy, harmful, hazardous, healthless, ill, in poor health, indisposed, infirm, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, insecure, invalid, jeopardous, languishing, malign, morbid, morbific, moribund, nefarious, noisome, noxious, pale, pathogenic, pathological, peaked, peaky, peccant, perilous, perverse, pestiferous, polluted, putrid, reduced, reduced in health, risky, rocky, rotten, run-down, septic, shaky, sick, sickly, tainted, tottery, touch-and-go, treacherous, uncertain, undependable, unhealthful, unhygienic, unpredictable, unreliable, unsafe, unsanitary, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, unwell, unwholesome, valetudinarian, valetudinary, vicious, villainous, weakened, weakly, wicked, with low resistance
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛlθi
