Adjective: unhealthful ,ún'helth-ful
Usage: rare (=unhealthy)
Usage: rare (=unhealthy)
- Detrimental to good health
"unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint";
- unhealthy
- Detrimental to health
"The unhealthful working conditions caused many illnesses";
- insalubrious, unhealthy
- Not sanitary or healthful
"unhealthful open sewers";
- unsanitary, insanitary, unhealthy
See also: crippling, cytopathogenic, disabling, incapacitating, infected, infective, morbific, nonmedicinal, pathogenetic, pathogenic, septic, toxic, unhealthy, unhygienic, unmedical, unmedicative, unmedicinal, unwholesome
Antonym: healthful