Synonyms for unhealthy
ʌnˈhɛl θiun·healthy

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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

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1. carbuncled

   marked with red sores

   Submitted by JohnTravers on September 4, 2019  

2. medical condition

   a type of disease that affect’s physical health

   mark had a medical condition in his heart, luckily the doctors treated it

   Submitted by cj_t on July 9, 2023  

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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How to use unhealthy in a sentence?

1. Mitch McConnell:

   I believe that every one of my colleagues knows our present situation is unhealthy for this body and for any administration.

2. Rebecca Puhl:

   A common perception is that a little shame or stigma might motivate people to lose weight, but that is not what we see in research, in fact, when people experience weight stigma this actually contributes to unhealthy eating behaviors, lower physical activity and weight gain.

3. Al Bochi:

   People feel like they have no idea what to eat anymore, they've been listening to all these different food rules -- don't eat carbs, don't eat after seven, eat this to increase Al Bochi metabolism -- and intuitive eating helps Al Bochi unlearn that unhealthy relationship with food and bring enjoyment back to the act of eating.

4. Robert A. Heinlein:

   Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

5. Georges Bataille:

   Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.