UNHEALTHY (unhealthier, unhealthiest)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unhealthy mean? 

• UNHEALTHY (adjective)
  The adjective UNHEALTHY has 3 senses:

1. not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind
2. detrimental to health
3. not conducive to good health

  Familiarity information: UNHEALTHY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNHEALTHY (adjective)

Meaning:

Not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind

Context example:

unhealthy ulcers

Similar:

dropsical; edematous (swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid)

enlarged (larger than normal)

foaming; foamy; frothing (producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease)

gangrenous; mortified (suffering from tissue death)

inflamed (resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened)

inflammatory (characterized or caused by inflammation)

ingrowing; ingrown (growing abnormally into the flesh)

icteric; jaundiced; yellow (affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc)

membrane-forming; membranous (characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane))

mental (affected by a disorder of the mind)

pro-inflammatory; proinflammatory (tending to cause inflammation)

sallow; sickly (unhealthy looking)

sore-eyed (having sore eyes; suffering from pinkeye or conjunctivitis)

sunburned; sunburnt (suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight)

varicose (abnormally swollen or knotty)

windburned; windburnt (suffering from windburn)

diseased; morbid; pathologic; pathological (caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology)

dehydrated (suffering from excessive loss of water from the body)

angry (severely inflamed and painful)

arthritic; creaky; rheumatic; rheumatoid; rheumy (of or pertaining to arthritis)

asthmatic; wheezing; wheezy (relating to breathing with a whistling sound)

bad; unfit; unsound (physically unsound or diseased)

blebby; blistery (covered with small blisters)

bloated; distended; intumescent; puffed; puffy; swollen; tumescent; tumid; turgid (abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas)

bloodshot ((of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed)

cankerous; ulcerated; ulcerous (having an ulcer or canker)

cytomegalic (of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells)

colicky; flatulent; gassy (suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal)

chilblained (having chilblains)

caseous (of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike)

carious ((of teeth) affected with cavities or decay)

carbuncled; carbuncular (afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle)

Also:

unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)

frail (physically weak)

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)

Attribute:

health; wellness (a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease)

Antonym:

healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)

Meaning:

Detrimental to health

Synonyms:

insalubrious; unhealthy; unhealthful

Similar:

unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)

Meaning:

Not conducive to good health

Context examples:

an unhealthy diet of fast foods / an unhealthy climate

Similar:

unhealthful (detrimental to good health)