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unhealthy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of unhealthy

1 bad for the well-being of the body

  • we knew that the junk food at the carnival was unhealthy, but it tasted so good!
Synonyms of unhealthy

insalubrious, noisome, noxious, sickly, unhealthful, unwholesome
Words Related to unhealthy

germy, insanitary, unhygienic, unsanitary

nonnutritious

poisonous, toxic

fatal, lethal, mortal
Near Antonyms of unhealthy

hygienic, sanitary

nutritious
Antonyms of unhealthy

healthful, healthy

2 involving potential loss or injury

  • criticism of the military dictatorship has proved to be unhealthy for several of that nation's journalists
Synonyms of unhealthy

dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, unsafe, venturesome
Words Related to unhealthy

dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertain

ultrahazardous

chance, haphazard, random

distressing, sickening, unpleasant

ugly, wicked

adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilent

deadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous
Near Antonyms of unhealthy

advantageous, beneficial, good

ultrasafe
Antonyms of unhealthy

harmless, innocent, innocuous, nonhazardous, nonthreatening, safe, unthreatening

3 temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body

  • she's been unhealthy for almost a week now
Synonyms of unhealthy

ailing, bad, down, ill, indisposed, peaked, peaky, poorly, punk, run-down, sick, sickened, unsound, unwell
Words Related to unhealthy

symptomatic

cruddy, lousy, seedy, sickish

nauseated, nauseous, qualmish, queasy (also queazy), squeamish

airsick, carsick, seasick

dizzy, light-headed, shaky, woozy

achy, feverish

diseased, disordered

decrepit, feeble, fragile, frail, infirm, invalid, sickly, weak, weakly

afflicted, troubled

challenged, debilitated, disabled, halt, incapacitated, lame

hypochondriac, hypochondriacal
Phrases Synonymous with unhealthy

out of sorts, under the weather
Near Antonyms of unhealthy

able-bodied, conditioned, fit, well-conditioned

cured

better, convalescing, improved, mending, recovering, recuperating, rehabilitated

hardy, hearty, lusty, robust, rugged, stalwart, strong, tough

blooming, bouncing, chipper, flourishing, flush, thriving
Antonyms of unhealthy

hale, healthful, healthy, sound, well, whole, wholesome

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