- Not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind
"unhealthy ulcers"
- Detrimental to health
"The climate is unhealthy";
- insalubrious, unhealthful [rare]
- Not conducive to good health
"an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate"
- Detrimental to good health
"unhealthy air pollution";
- unhealthful [rare]
- Not sanitary or healthful
"unhealthy open sewers";
- unsanitary, insanitary, unhealthful [rare]
Derived forms: unhealthiest, unhealthier
See also: angry, arthritic, asthmatic, bad, blebby, blistery, bloated, bloodshot, cankerous, carbuncled, carbuncular, carious, caseous, chilblained, colicky, creaky, crippling, cytomegalic, cytopathogenic, dehydrated, disabling, diseased, distended, dropsical, edematous, enlarged, flatulent, foaming, foamy, frail, frothing, gangrenous, gassy [informal], health, icteric, ill, incapacitating, infected, infective, inflamed, inflammatory, ingrowing, ingrown, intumescent, jaundiced, membrane-forming, membranous, mental, morbid, morbific, mortified, nonmedicinal, pathogenetic, pathogenic, pathologic, pathological, peaky [Brit, informal], proinflammatory, pro-inflammatory, puffy, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy, sallow, septic, sick, sickly, sore-eyed, sunburned, sunburnt, swollen, toxic, tumescent, tumid, turgid, ulcerated, ulcerous, unfit, unhygienic, unmedical, unmedicative, unmedicinal, unsound, unwholesome, varicose, wellness, wheezing, wheezy, windburned, windburnt, yellow
Antonym: healthy
Encyclopedia: Unhealthy