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Adjectives (4)

unhealthy

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

unhealthy

adj. not conducive to good health; "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate"

insalubrious, unhealthful

adj. detrimental to health

Fuzzynyms (41)

noxious

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

insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy

adj. detrimental to health

harmful

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

ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy

adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"

decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly

adj. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish

adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

ill

adj. not good; unfriendly or harmful: "ill manners"; "ill repute"; "ill deeds"; "ill will"; "an ill wind"

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"

toxic

adj. of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison; "suffering from exposure to toxic substances"

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"

Synonyms (14)

unsound

adj. not sound financially; "unsound banking practices"

crippling, disabling, incapacitating

adj. that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling injury"

infective, morbific, pathogenic

adj. able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria"

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 (1)

healthy

adj. having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"

abruptly > glad > budge > ungrateful > short > every bit as > abruptly pinnate > unhealthy

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