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Adjective: unhealthy (unhealthier,unhealthiest)  ,ún'hel-thee
  1. Not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind
    "unhealthy ulcers"
     
  2. Detrimental to health
    "The climate is unhealthy";
    - insalubrious, unhealthful [rare]
     
  3. Not conducive to good health
    "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate"
     
  4. Detrimental to good health
    "unhealthy air pollution";
    - unhealthful [rare]
     
  5. 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