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UNHEALTHFUL

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Detrimental to good healthplay

Example:

unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

crippling; disabling; incapacitating (that cripples or disables or incapacitates)

cytopathogenic (of or relating to or causing pathological changes in cells)

infective; morbific; pathogenic (able to cause disease)

nonmedicinal; unmedical; unmedicative; unmedicinal (not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed)

unhealthy (not conducive to good health)

Also:

infected; septic (containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms)

toxic (of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison)

unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)

Antonym:

healthful (conducive to good health of body or mind)

Derivation:

unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not sanitary or healthfulplay

Example:

grim and unsanitary conditions

Synonyms:

insanitary; unhealthful; unsanitary

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unhygienic (unclean and constituting a likely cause of disease)

Derivation:

unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Detrimental to healthplay

Synonyms:

insalubrious; unhealthful; unhealthy

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)

Derivation:

unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)

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