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Adjectives (2)

noxious

adj. injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"

noisome

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

Fuzzynyms (13)

poisonous, toxicant

adj. having the qualities or effects of a poison

unhealthy

adj. not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"

insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy

adj. detrimental to health

barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious

adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

Synonyms (8)

insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy

adj. detrimental to health

insubstantial, jejune

adj. lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"

morbid

adj. suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"

offensive, loathsome

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

Antonyms (9)

innocuous

adj. not injurious to physical or mental health

wholesome

adj. conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"

curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic

adj. tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets"

wholesome

adj. conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"

unpleasant > worm > stabbing > dinky > undivided > essential > sprightly > noxious

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