Synonyms for unhealthy
ʌnˈhɛl θiun·healthy

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1. unhealthyadjective

   Antonyms:
   healthy

2. unhealthyadjective

   The villagers lived in unhealthy surroundings.

   Antonyms:
   healthy

3. unhealthyadjective

   He was an unhealthy child.

   Antonyms:
   healthy

4. unhealthyadjective

   He liked unhealthy reading material.

   Antonyms:
   healthy

5. unhealthyadjective

   He had an unhealthy interest in fire.

   Antonyms:
   healthy

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unhealthy

   Synonyms:
   delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, failing, fainting, fragile, frail, ill, sick, unsound, wasted, weak, worn, worn down, worn out

   Antonyms:
   hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sound, strong, vigorous, well, wholesome

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1. unhealthyadjective

   not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind

   "unhealthy ulcers"

   Synonyms:
   insalubrious, unhealthful

   Antonyms:
   hearty, sound, rosy-cheeked, well-preserved, healthy, healthful, florid, anicteric, sun-loving, rose-cheeked, rubicund, full-blooded, flushed, wholesome, bouncing, firm, whole, sanguine, rosy, red-blooded, hale, lusty, rock-loving, water-loving, ruddy, good

2. insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthyadjective

   detrimental to health

   Synonyms:
   unsanitary, insanitary, insalubrious, unhealthful

   Antonyms:
   anicteric, sound, hearty, full-blooded, good, rock-loving, bouncing, rubicund, sanguine, wholesome, sun-loving, rosy-cheeked, ruddy, red-blooded, whole, well-preserved, lusty, rose-cheeked, water-loving, florid, healthy, rosy, firm, hale, flushed, healthful

3. unhealthyadjective

   not conducive to good health

   "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate"

   Synonyms:
   insalubrious, unhealthful

   Antonyms:
   good, sound, florid, flushed, bouncing, hearty, well-preserved, wholesome, rosy-cheeked, sun-loving, water-loving, anicteric, ruddy, sanguine, healthy, full-blooded, rosy, rose-cheeked, rock-loving, healthful, whole, red-blooded, lusty, firm, hale, rubicund

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. carbuncled

   marked with red sores

   Submitted by JohnTravers on September 4, 2019  

2. medical condition

   a type of disease that affect’s physical health

   mark had a medical condition in his heart, luckily the doctors treated it

   Submitted by cj_t on July 9, 2023  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unhealthyadjective

   Synonyms:
   unsound, diseased, sickly, not vigorous, not well, out of health

2. unhealthyadjective

   Synonyms:
   unwholesome, insalubrious, deleterious, poisonous, morbific, unhealthful. noxious, unfavorable to health

3. unhealthyadjective

   Synonyms:
   morbid, indicative of disease

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1. unhealthyadjective

   Synonyms:
   unhealthful, unwholesome, insalubrious, noxious, noisome, pestiferous, pernicious, unsanitary, unhygienic, morbid, morbific, pestilent, insalutary, sickly, unsound, diseased, morbid, invalid

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1. List of paraphrases for "unhealthy":

   unsanitary, insanitary, unsound, insalubrious, unhygienic, unsafe, substandard, unwholesome, sick, harmful, bad, non-performing

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1. Paul Hokemeyer:

   The key of liberation is to acknowledge that your unhealthy response to other peoples’ behavior is a habit – and most importantly – that it’s a habit you can break.

2. Meghan Garrity:

   Nonetheless, this study very much demonstrates the role that unhealthy dietary habits are playing on the health and wellbeing of children on a global scale.

3. Jennifer Garner:

   In all honestly I have never wanted to do anything less, and I have never regretted saying yes to anything more than speaking to all of you, writing this speech has made me examine my life choices. It has made me gain five pounds... I have experienced an unhealthy level of self-loathing. I have even hated on Steve Carrell, Denison University alum [ actor ] Steve Carrell. I feel like Steve Carrell graduated 10 years before me, Steve Carrell should have had to do this first. I mean, Steve Carrell was in' The Office.'.

4. John Kasich:

   This anti-immigration is unhealthy.

5. Phillip Li:

   In the past there were no defaults, because almost all issuers were SOEs or government backed, this cannot continue. In order for the debt market to be normal, unhealthy debt should be identified.