What is another word for Unhealthy?
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unwholesome
good, right
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sickly
health, feeble
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sick
feeling, good
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ill
sick, diseased
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unhealthful
harmful, very bad in effect on well-being
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unsound
sick, unwell
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morbid
good, unwholesome
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insalubrious
health, harmful
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dangerous
terrible, risky
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ailing
sick, ill
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unwell
sick, health
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noxious
harmful, deleterious
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diseased
sick, impaired
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indisposed
ill-looking
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harmful
deleterious, very bad in effect on well-being
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bad
ill, injurious
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weak
feeling, health
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infirm
feeling, health
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poisonous
harmful, deleterious
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detrimental
harmful, very bad in effect on well-being
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risky
dangerous, very bad in effect on well-being
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delicate
weak, diseased
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feeble
feeling, weak
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hazardous
very bad in effect on well-being
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perilous
dangerous, risky
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frail
ill-looking
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deleterious
injurious
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poorly
ill-looking
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injurious
adverse
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unsanitary
deleterious
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unfit
ill-looking
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corrupt
clean
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unsafe
dangerous
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debilitated
ill-looking
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depraved
clean, unwholesome
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rotten
clean
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perverse
clean
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pernicious
injurious, adverse
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noisome
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in poor health
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- delicate
- unsound
- ailing
- below par
- debilitated
- diseased
- down
- dragging
- feeble
- frail
- ill
- in a decline
- in ill health
- in poor health
- infirm
- invalid
- laid low
- out of action
- out of shape
- peaked
- poorly
- run down
- shaky
- sickly
- unwell
- weak
- corrupt
- corrupting
- dangerous
- degrading
- detrimental
- harmful
- hazardous
- negative
- noxious
- perilous
- perverse
- poisonous
- risky
- undesirable
- unsanitary
- unsound
- baneful
- chancy
- degenerate
- deleterious
- demoralizing
- insalubrious
- jeopardous
- morbid
- nefarious
- noisome
- rotten
- treacherous
- unhealthful
- unwholesome
- villainous
- virulent
- wicked
On this page you’ll find 128 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unhealthy, such as: delicate, unsound, ailing, below par, debilitated, and diseased.
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- good
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- pure
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- secure
- sound
- wholesome
- healthy
- strong
- well
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Avoid impulse purchasing unhealthy snacks or items you won’t realistically use.
AS STAY-AT-HOME RESTRICTIONS RISE, HERE ARE WAYS TO COPEWASHINGTON POST STAFF, ELIZABETH CHANG, MARI-JANE WILLIAMS, BECKY KRYSTAL, KENDRA NICHOLS, CAITLIN MOORE, STEPHANIE MERRY, MISSY ROSENBERG, KATHERINE LEEDECEMBER 2, 2020WASHINGTON POST
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
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Where the dampness is excessive the fronds take on an unhealthy appearance, and mould may appear.
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WORDS RELATED TO UNHEALTHY
- damaging
- dangerous
- deleterious
- detrimental
- hurtful
- injurious
- ruinous
- unhealthy
- damaging
- dangerous
- deleterious
- detrimental
- hurtful
- injurious
- ruinous
- unhealthy
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- dangersome
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- jeopardous
- loaded
- malignant
- menacing
- mortal
- nasty
- no-go
- on collision course
- parlous
- perilous
- portentous
- precarious
- pressing
- queasy
- risky
- serious
- serpentine
- shaky
- speculative
- terrible
- thorny
- threatening
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- ugly
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unstable
- urgent
- viperous
- vulnerable
- wicked
- abnormal
- amiss
- blemished
- damaged
- deficient
- faulty
- flawed
- impaired
- imperfect
- inadequate
- incomplete
- injured
- insufficient
- lacking
- on the bum
- out of order
- poor
- seconds
- sick
- subnormal
- unfinished
- unhealthy
- unsound
- wanting
- base
- debased
- debauched
- decadent
- decayed
- degenerated
- degraded
- demeaned
- depraved
- dissolute
- effete
- failing
- fallen
- flatitious
- immoral
- infamous
- low
- mean
- miscreant
- nefarious
- overripe
- perverted
- retrograde
- retrogressive
- rotten
- sinking
- unhealthy
- vicious
- villainous
- vitiated
- wicked
- worsen
- ailing
- debilitated
- decrepit
- feeble
- flimsy
- fragile
- frail
- infirm
- shatterable
- shattery
- slender
- slight
- susceptible
- tender
- unhealthy
- weak
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afflicted, ailing, corrupted, crazed, dainty, en.synonym.one, dangerous, declining, defective, delicate, demented, diseased, fault, feeble, fragile, handicapped, harmful, ill, impaired, indisposed, infirm, insubstantial, invalid, morbid, morose, noxious, en.synonym.one, poisonous, puny, rickety, sick, sickly, squeamish, tainted, ticklish, unhealthful, unsanitary, unsound, unwell, unwholesome, wan, weak, weakly, insalubrious.
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unhealthyadjective
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unhealthyadjective
The villagers lived in unhealthy surroundings.
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unhealthyadjective
He was an unhealthy child.
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healthy -
unhealthyadjective
He liked unhealthy reading material.
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healthy -
unhealthyadjective
He had an unhealthy interest in fire.
Antonyms:
healthy
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unhealthy
Synonyms:
delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, failing, fainting, fragile, frail, ill, sick, unsound, wasted, weak, worn, worn down, worn outAntonyms:
hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sound, strong, vigorous, well, wholesome
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unhealthyadjective
not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind
«unhealthy ulcers»
Synonyms:
insalubrious, unhealthfulAntonyms:
hearty, sound, rosy-cheeked, well-preserved, healthy, healthful, florid, anicteric, sun-loving, rose-cheeked, rubicund, full-blooded, flushed, wholesome, bouncing, firm, whole, sanguine, rosy, red-blooded, hale, lusty, rock-loving, water-loving, ruddy, good -
insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthyadjective
detrimental to health
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unsanitary, insanitary, insalubrious, unhealthfulAntonyms:
anicteric, sound, hearty, full-blooded, good, rock-loving, bouncing, rubicund, sanguine, wholesome, sun-loving, rosy-cheeked, ruddy, red-blooded, whole, well-preserved, lusty, rose-cheeked, water-loving, florid, healthy, rosy, firm, hale, flushed, healthful -
unhealthyadjective
not conducive to good health
«an unhealthy diet of fast foods»; «an unhealthy climate»
Synonyms:
insalubrious, unhealthfulAntonyms:
good, sound, florid, flushed, bouncing, hearty, well-preserved, wholesome, rosy-cheeked, sun-loving, water-loving, anicteric, ruddy, sanguine, healthy, full-blooded, rosy, rose-cheeked, rock-loving, healthful, whole, red-blooded, lusty, firm, hale, rubicund
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unhealthyadjective
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unsound, diseased, sickly, not vigorous, not well, out of health -
unhealthyadjective
Synonyms:
unwholesome, insalubrious, deleterious, poisonous, morbific, unhealthful. noxious, unfavorable to health -
unhealthyadjective
Synonyms:
morbid, indicative of disease
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unhealthyadjective
Synonyms:
unhealthful, unwholesome, insalubrious, noxious, noisome, pestiferous, pernicious, unsanitary, unhygienic, morbid, morbific, pestilent, insalutary, sickly, unsound, diseased, morbid, invalid
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List of paraphrases for «unhealthy»:
unsanitary, insanitary, unsound, insalubrious, unhygienic, unsafe, substandard, unwholesome, sick, harmful, bad, non-performing
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How to use unhealthy in a sentence?
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Nancy Hogshead-Makar:
It tells the baseball players you’re more important, that’s equally as unhealthy, as for a girl to hear that she’s not as important as for him to hear that he’s more important.
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Samantha Heller:
These healthy fats have been shown to improve cognitive function and brain health, conversely, research suggests that eating unhealthy fats like trans fats found in processed foods, and saturated fats in animal foods accelerated cognitive decline, poor memory, and is linked with an increased risk of dementia.
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Andrew Rundle:
There could be long-term consequences for weight gained while children are out of school during the COVID-19 pandemic, research shows that weight gained over the summer months is maintained during the school year and accrues summer to summer. When a child experiences obesity, even at a young age, they are at risk for higher, unhealthy weight, all the way into middle age.
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Laura Berman:
These studies can only suggest an association and can not establish causation, for example, some women who report high stress may also have decreased sleep, irregular or unhealthy diets, or increased rates of substance use. It is unclear whether it is the’ stress’ that causes the adverse outcome.
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Mmusi Maimane:
I’m not fundamentally capitalist or socialist. If you held a gun to my head, I would say I believe in a declining state and increasing private sector, i would work closely with unions but we’re not compromised by being in an unhealthy alliance with them.
Translations for unhealthy
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- غير صحيArabic
- insalubreCatalan, Valencian
- nezdravýCzech
- afiachWelsh
- gesundheitsschädlich, ungesundGerman
- ανθυγιεινός, νοσηρόςGreek
- malsanaEsperanto
- ebatervislikEstonian
- epäterveellinenFinnish
- malsano, insalubreItalian
- aeger, aegrotum, aegrota, aegrum, aegra, aegrotusLatin
- ongesondLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- aewaMāori
- вредныйRussian
- sağlıksızTurkish
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1 ailing, delicate, feeble, frail, infirm, in poor health, invalid, poorly (informal) sick, sickly, unsound, unwell, weak
2 deleterious, detrimental, harmful, insalubrious, insanitary, noisome, noxious, unwholesome
3 bad, baneful (archaic) corrupt, corrupting, degrading, demoralizing, morbid, negative, undesirable
Antonyms
1 & 2 beneficial, fit, good, healthy, robust, salubrious, salutary, well, wholesome
3 desirable, moral, positive
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus
unhealthy
( unhealthier comparative) ( unhealthiest superlative )
1 adj Something that is unhealthy is likely to cause illness or poor health., (Antonym: healthy)
Avoid unhealthy foods such as hamburger and chips…, He worked in the notoriously unhealthy environment of a coal mine.
2 adj If you are unhealthy, you are not very fit or well., (Antonym: healthy)
I’m quite unhealthy really., …a poorly dressed, unhealthy looking fellow with a poor complexion.
3 adj An unhealthy economy or company is financially weak and unsuccessful. (BUSINESS)
(=weak) (Antonym: strong)
The redundancy of skilled and experienced workers is a terrible waste and a clear sign of an unhealthy economy.
4 adj If you describe someone’s behaviour or interests as unhealthy, you do not consider them to be normal and think they may involve mental problems., (Antonym: healthy)
Frank has developed what I would term an unhealthy relationship with these people…, MacGregor believes it is unhealthy to lead a life with no interests beyond politics.
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