unhealthy

adjective

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un·healthy | \ ˌən-ˈhel-thē

unhealthier; unhealthiest

Definition of unhealthy

1 : not conducive to health : not healthful an unhealthy climate unhealthy habits unhealthy foods

2 : not in good health : sickly, diseased unhealthy animals

3a : risky, unsound an unhealthy economy

b : of a harmful nature : bad, injurious unhealthy levels of lead

c : morally contaminated : corrupt, unwholesome an unhealthy imagination

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Other Words from unhealthy

unhealthily \ ˌən-ˈhel-thə-lē

\ adverb

unhealthiness \ ˌən-ˈhel-thē-nəs

\ noun

Examples of unhealthy in a Sentence

Her skin looks blotchy and unhealthy. Tests revealed an unhealthy level of lead in the water. Eating honey can be unhealthy for babies. He was stuck in an unhealthy relationship. She has an unhealthy interest in natural disasters.

Recent Examples on the Web Unethical decisions: An unhealthy obsession with outcomes can mask misconduct. — Nuala Walsh, Forbes, 4 May 2022 Officials also warned of unhealthy air quality for sensitive groups in the Las Vegas, New Mexico, area as smoke drains into the valley, the report said. — Hannah Sarisohn And Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 1 May 2022 Amid the conflict and the many other challenges facing the globe right now, like inflation and food price hikes, the global elite has an unhealthy obsession with climate change. — Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022 Which brings me to the keyboard, and my confession of an unhealthy obsession. — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 19 Mar. 2022 Wearing a fitness tracker can have indisputable health benefits, but sometimes the line between healthy use of a fitness tracker and an unhealthy obsession with the data and numbers can become blurred. — Julie Gallagher, Wired, 17 Sep. 2021 What better way to channel an unhealthy obsession with food than to turn food into our careers? — Hannah Howar, SELF, 13 Sep. 2021 His fatherly guilt is matched only by an unhealthy obsession with his Avengers counterpart. — cleveland, 29 June 2021 For Jonas, this manifests in a borderline unhealthy obsession with his crush, Nicole (Starr Kirkland). — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021 See More

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