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Another word for unhealthy

unhealthy Synonyms

unhealthy

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Sickly
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*.
Unwholesome
deleterious, harmful, injurious, noxious, hurtful, unsanitary, toxic; see also harmful.
Antonyms healthy*, robust, hale.

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Another word for unhealthy

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Not sustaining or promoting health:
insalubrious, unsalutary, unwholesome. See health
Morally detrimental:
contaminative, corruptive, demoralizing, unwholesome. See right
Utterly reprehensible in nature or behavior:
corrupt, degenerate, depraved, flagitious, miscreant, perverse, rotten, villainous. See clean, good
Susceptible to or marked by preoccupation with unwholesome matters:
macabre, morbid, sick, unwholesome. See good

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The climate is for the most part temperate and healthy, but it is hot and unhealthy on the coast.
The climate is in general very hot and unhealthy, the rainfall being very heavy.
Its large eyes appeared young and unhealthy, almost dropsical.
Everywhere it is most unhealthy, and inhabited only by tribes who seem proof against malaria.
The site is so unhealthy that even the Circassians who settled there twenty years ago have almost all died off or emigrated.

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