Синонимы слова unhealthy

What is another word for Unhealthy?

  • unwholesome

    good, right

  • sickly

    health, feeble

  • sick

    feeling, good

  • ill

    sick, diseased

  • unhealthful

    harmful, very bad in effect on well-being

  • unsound

    sick, unwell

  • morbid

    good, unwholesome

  • insalubrious

    health, harmful

  • dangerous

    terrible, risky

  • ailing

    sick, ill

  • unwell

    sick, health

  • noxious

    harmful, deleterious

  • diseased

    sick, impaired

  • indisposed

    ill-looking

  • harmful

    deleterious, very bad in effect on well-being

  • bad

    ill, injurious

  • weak

    feeling, health

  • infirm

    feeling, health

  • poisonous

    harmful, deleterious

  • detrimental

    harmful, very bad in effect on well-being

  • risky

    dangerous, very bad in effect on well-being

  • delicate

    weak, diseased

  • feeble

    feeling, weak

  • hazardous

    very bad in effect on well-being

  • perilous

    dangerous, risky

  • frail

    ill-looking

  • deleterious

    injurious

  • poorly

    ill-looking

  • injurious

    adverse

  • unsanitary

    deleterious

  • unfit

    ill-looking

  • corrupt

    clean

  • unsafe

    dangerous

  • debilitated

    ill-looking

  • depraved

    clean, unwholesome

  • rotten

    clean

  • perverse

    clean

  • pernicious

    injurious, adverse

  • noisome

  • 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.

  • certain
  • good
  • guarded
  • helpful
  • pure
  • safe
  • secure
  • sound
  • wholesome
  • healthy
  • strong
  • well

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Avoid impulse purchasing unhealthy snacks or items you won’t realistically use.

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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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  1. unhealthyadjective

    Antonyms:
    healthy

  2. unhealthyadjective

    The villagers lived in unhealthy surroundings.

    Antonyms:
    healthy

  3. unhealthyadjective

    He was an unhealthy child.

    Antonyms:
    healthy

  4. unhealthyadjective

    He liked unhealthy reading material.

    Antonyms:
    healthy

  5. unhealthyadjective

    He had an unhealthy interest in fire.

    Antonyms:
    healthy

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. unhealthy

    Synonyms:
    delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, failing, fainting, fragile, frail, ill, sick, unsound, wasted, weak, worn, worn down, worn out

    Antonyms:
    hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sound, strong, vigorous, well, wholesome

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. unhealthyadjective

    not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind

    «unhealthy ulcers»

    Synonyms:
    insalubrious, unhealthful

    Antonyms:
    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

  2. insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthyadjective

    detrimental to health

    Synonyms:
    unsanitary, insanitary, insalubrious, unhealthful

    Antonyms:
    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

  3. unhealthyadjective

    not conducive to good health

    «an unhealthy diet of fast foods»; «an unhealthy climate»

    Synonyms:
    insalubrious, unhealthful

    Antonyms:
    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

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. unhealthyadjective

    Synonyms:
    unsound, diseased, sickly, not vigorous, not well, out of health

  2. unhealthyadjective

    Synonyms:
    unwholesome, insalubrious, deleterious, poisonous, morbific, unhealthful. noxious, unfavorable to health

  3. unhealthyadjective

    Synonyms:
    morbid, indicative of disease

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  1. unhealthyadjective

    Synonyms:
    unhealthful, unwholesome, insalubrious, noxious, noisome, pestiferous, pernicious, unsanitary, unhygienic, morbid, morbific, pestilent, insalutary, sickly, unsound, diseased, morbid, invalid

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  1. List of paraphrases for «unhealthy»:

    unsanitary, insanitary, unsound, insalubrious, unhygienic, unsafe, substandard, unwholesome, sick, harmful, bad, non-performing

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.


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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  

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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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