unhealthy
Adjective
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Not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind (synset 301176433)
"unhealthy ulcers"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
similar to:- 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
- intumescent, puffy, 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
- carbuncled, carbuncular - afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle
- carious - (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay
- caseous - of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike
- chilblained - having chilblains
- colicky, flatulent, gassy - suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal
- cytomegalic - of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells
- dehydrated - suffering from excessive loss of water from the body
- diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological - caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
- 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
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Detrimental to health (synset 302570304)
similar to: unwholesome - detrimental to physical or moral well-beingsame as: insalubrious, unhealthful
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Not conducive to good health (synset 301172389)
"an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate"similar to: unhealthful - detrimental to good health
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