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Unhealthful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Causing or conducive to poor health; unwholesome.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Not healthy; detrimental to health.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Not healthful; injurious to health; insalubrious; unwholesome; noxious, physically or morally: as, an unhealthful climate or air.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. detrimental to good health

adj. not sanitary or healthful

adj. detrimental to health

Word Usage

"But they're complicated by all kinds of issues, including unclear definitions of what's "unhealthful," the debate over whether the food industry's voluntary changes can be sufficient and the expanding field of venues through which those companies can reach children."

Equivalent

unmedicative incapacitating nonmedicinal unhealthy cytopathogenic morbific infective disabling unmedicinal crippling

Antonym

healthful sanitary

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

unwholesome insalubrious healthless insanitary

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

healthful

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

fever-ridden viperous insalubrious inarable supersensitive jejune algolagnic nonnatural highly-strung unintelligently