unhealthy
adjective
1. not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind
- unhealthy ulcers
Similar word(s): unfit, angry, arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy, asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy, bad, unfit, unsound, blebby, blistery, intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid, bloodshot, cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous, carbuncled, carbuncular, carious, caseous, chilblained, colicky, flatulent, gassy, cytomegalic, dehydrated, diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological, dropsical, edematous, enlarged, foaming, foamy, frothing, gangrenous, mortified, inflamed, inflammatory, ingrowing, ingrown, icteric, jaundiced, yellow, membranous, mental, proinflammatory, sallow, sickly, sunburned, sunburnt, varicose, windburned, windburnt, frail, ill, sick, unwholesome
2. detrimental to health
Similar word(s): unwholesome, insalubrious, unhealthful
3. not conducive to good health
- an unhealthy diet of fast foods
- an unhealthy climate
Similar word(s): unhealthful
Sentences with unhealthy as an adjective:
- The villagers lived in unhealthy surroundings.
- He was an unhealthy child.
- He liked unhealthy reading material.
- He had an unhealthy interest in fire.