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Adjectives (5)

adj. detrimental to good health; "unhealthful air pollution"; "unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint"

insalubrious, unhealthy

adj. detrimental to health

unsanitary, insanitary

adj. not sanitary or healthful; "unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions"

Fuzzynyms (12)

noxious

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

unhealthy

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

harmful

adj. causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"

prejudicial, prejudicious

adj. tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"

deleterious, hurtful, injurious

adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"

dirty, pestiferous

adj. contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen

contaminated, polluted

adj. rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"

Synonyms (7)

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"

noisome, noxious

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

offensive, loathsome

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

Antonyms (3)

healthful

adj. conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"

sanitary, healthful

adj. free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom"

repel > united > neglect > day > dispensable > imparipinnate > cataclysmic > unhealthful

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