unhealthy

Speech parts

1. unhealthy - Adjective

2. unhealthy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

detrimental to health

not conducive to good health

not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

insalubrious unhealthful dicky peaky chancy weak bad dangerous ill poorly harmful sick damaging peaked destructive

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Antonyms

healthy garnet hardy crimson carmine hale

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Phrases with the word

unhealthy food unhealthy diet unhealthy diets unhealthy eating unhealthy stuff unhealthy products

Derivatives

Unhealthier unhealthiest

Examples

A Christian should avoid unhealthy religiosity: both the feeling of superiority due to virtue, and the feeling of inferiority due to sinfulness. Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. Evelyn Waugh

From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy. Vitruvius

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy. Vitruvius

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. Carl Jung

A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee. Eric Berne

Close letter words and terms

unhealthily unhealthiness unhealthsome unhealthy confidence unhealthy diet unhealthy diets