Unhealthy
[ʌn'helθɪ] or [ʌn'hɛlθi]
Definition
(adj.) not conducive to good health; 'an unhealthy diet of fast foods'; 'an unhealthy climate' .
(adj.) not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; 'unhealthy ulcers' .
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unsound, diseased, sickly, not vigorous, not well, out of health.[2]. Unwholesome, insalubrious, deleterious, poisonous, morbific, unhealthful. noxious, unfavorable to health.[3]. Morbid, indicative of disease.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Typist: Mag
Definition
adj. not healthy: wanting health or soundness of body: unfavourable to health: not indicating health.—n. Unhealth′ unhealthiness.—adj. Unhealth′ful.—adv. Unhealth′fully.—n. Unhealth′fulness.—adv. Unheal′thily.—n. Unheal′thiness state or quality of being unhealthy or unfavourable to health: unsoundness.
Typist: Lucinda
Examples
- South End is an unhealthy place. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The place was closer than before and had an unhealthy and a very peculiar smell. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Her complexion was sallow and unhealthy, her cheeks thin, her features sharp, and her whole form emaciated. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Why, I should not be ill--be dying--if he had not taken me away from Helstone, to this unhealthy, smoky, sunless place. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It's morbid to say this; it's unhealthy; it's all that a well-regulated mind like Miss Clack's most instinctively shudders at. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Why, I said, that which is healthy causes health, and that which is unhealthy causes disease. Plato. The Republic.
- I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is this soft, damp, unhealthy air. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Indeed, they say the place is very unhealthy, and that may excuse you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is your unhealthy life, your unhealthy bodies, which breed such restlessness in you. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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