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UNHEALTHFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Detrimental to good health
Example:
unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint
Classified under:
Similar:
crippling; disabling; incapacitating (that cripples or disables or incapacitates)
cytopathogenic (of or relating to or causing pathological changes in cells)
infective; morbific; pathogenic (able to cause disease)
nonmedicinal; unmedical; unmedicative; unmedicinal (not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed)
unhealthy (not conducive to good health)
Also:
infected; septic (containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms)
toxic (of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison)
unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)
Antonym:
healthful (conducive to good health of body or mind)
Derivation:
unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not sanitary or healthful
Example:
grim and unsanitary conditions
Synonyms:
insanitary; unhealthful; unsanitary
Classified under:
Similar:
unhygienic (unclean and constituting a likely cause of disease)
Derivation:
unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Detrimental to health
Synonyms:
insalubrious; unhealthful; unhealthy
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)
Derivation:
unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)
