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un·health·y
 unhealthy
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- pronunciation:
- uhn
hel
thi
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
unhealthier, unhealthiest |
| definition 1: |
in bad health; ill; sickly.
- synonyms:
- ailing, ill, sick, unwell
- antonyms:
- healthful, healthy, sound
- similar words:
- bad, diseased, feeble, frail, indisposed, infirm, poorly, sickly, unfit, unsound, unwholesome, weak
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| definition 2: |
suggesting or showing ill health.
an unhealthy yellowness around the eyes- synonyms:
- morbid, sickly, unwholesome
- antonyms:
- healthy
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| definition 3: |
tending to cause poor health or disease.
unhealthy habitsan unhealthy climate
- synonyms:
- insalubrious, noxious, unwholesome
- antonyms:
- benign, healthful, healthy
- similar words:
- bad, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, injurious, malignant, morbid, noisome, pestilential, septic, toxic, unhygienic, unsanitary, virulent
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| definition 4: |
tending to reflect or cause moral or ethical weakness.
an unhealthy interest in violence- synonyms:
- corrupting, unwholesome
- similar words:
- bad, base, degrading, immoral, noxious, perverted, polluting
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| related words: |
inimical, noxious, run-down, sick |
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| derivations: |
unhealthily (adv.), unhealthiness (n.) |
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