unhealthy

unhealthy
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. sickly, infirm, ailing, invalid; delicate, frail; undesirable, inauspicious, ominous. See disease.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [Sickly]
Syn. not well, sick, in a decline, in ill health, infirm, delicate, feeble, shaky, valetudinarian, undernourished, rickety, spindling, ailing, invalid, weak, in a run-down condition, poorly*.
2. [Unwholesome]
Syn. deleterious, harmful, injurious, noxious, hurtful, unsanitary, toxic; see also harmful .
Ant. healthy*, robust, hale.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
1. sick sickly, ill, unwell, diseased, in poor health, unfit, weak, run-down, *under the weather, debilitated, bedridden, *in bad shape.
2. bad for you unwholesome, hazardous to one's health, unhealthful, detrimental, deleterious, noxious, toxic, virulent, harmful, malignant.
ANT.: 1. healthy, fit, in good shape, robust. 2. good for you, wholesome, healthful
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Not sustaining or promoting health: insalubrious, unsalutary, unwholesome. See HEALTH. 2. Morally detrimental: contamina-tive, corruptive, demoralizing, unwholesome. See RIGHT. 3. Utterly reprehensible in nature or behavior: corrupt, degenerate, depraved, flagitious, miscreant, perverse, rotten, villainous. See CLEAN, GOOD. 4. Susceptible to or marked by preoccupation with unwholesome matters: macabre, morbid, sick, unwholesome. See GOOD.

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