unhealthful

  • 101unhealthy — 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,… …

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  • 102unclean — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. soiled, sullied, stained, spotted, filthy, bedraggled, smeared, befouled, nasty, grimy, polluted, rank, unhealthful, defiled, impure, nonkosher, muddy, fetid, feculent, stinking, rotten, vile, decayed, contaminated,… …

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  • 103unwholesome — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unhealthful, baneful, insalubrious, toxic, poisonous, contaminated, nauseous, destructive, harmful, deleterious, pernicious, unnutritious, noxious, septic, pestilent, contagious, dangerous, lethal, venomous, envenomed,… …

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  • 104Healthy — Healthful. I m not really sure if this is slang or whether the American use of healthful is the real alternative to the English healthy . We talk about a healthy lifestyle and about healthy food. I never heard anyone say smoking was unhealthful… …

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  • 105east — O.E. east east, easterly, eastward, from P.Gmc. *aus to , *austra east, toward the sunrise (Cf. O.Fris. ast east, aster eastward, Du. oost O.S. ost, O.H.G. ostan, Ger. Ost, O.N. austr from the east ), from PIE …

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  • 106unhealthy — 1590s, injurious to health, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + HEALTHY (Cf. healthy). Earlier unhealthsome (1540s), unhealthful (1570s). Of persons, sickly, it is attested from 1610s …

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  • 107insalubrious — a. Unhealthy, unwholesome, unhealthful, noxious, unfavorable to health …

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  • 108unhealthy — a. 1. Unsound, diseased, sickly, out of health, valetudinary, valetudinarian. 2. Unsound, diseased, sickly. 3. Sickly. 4. Unwholesome, insalubrious, deleterious, poisonous, morbific, unhealthful, noxious, unfavorable to health. 5. Morbid,… …

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  • 109unwholesome — a. 1. Insalubrious, unhealthy, unhealthful, noxious, noisome, deleterious, baneful, poisonous, injurious to health. 2. Pernicious (to the mind), injudicious, unsound. 3. Unsound, corrupt, tainted …

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  • 110unwholesome — unwholesome, morbid, sickly, diseased, pathological apply to what is unhealthy or unhealthful in any of various ways. Unwholesome is applicable not only to what is not healthy or healthful physically and mentally but also to what is morally… …

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