Synonyms and Antonyms of unhealthy
1
bad for the well-being of the body
- we knew that the junk food at the carnival was unhealthy, but it tasted so good!
2
involving potential loss or injury
- criticism of the military dictatorship has proved to be unhealthy for several of that nation's journalists
dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, unsafe, venturesome
dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertain
ultrahazardous
chance, haphazard, random
distressing, sickening, unpleasant
ugly, wicked
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilent
deadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous
3
temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body
- she's been unhealthy for almost a week now
ailing, bad, down, ill, indisposed, peaked, peaky, poorly, punk, run-down, sick, sickened, unsound, unwell
symptomatic
cruddy, lousy, seedy, sickish
nauseated, nauseous, qualmish, queasy (also queazy), squeamish
airsick, carsick, seasick
dizzy, light-headed, shaky, woozy
achy, feverish
diseased, disordered
decrepit, feeble, fragile, frail, infirm, invalid, sickly, weak, weakly
afflicted, troubled
challenged, debilitated, disabled, halt, incapacitated, lame
hypochondriac, hypochondriacal
able-bodied, conditioned, fit, well-conditioned
cured
better, convalescing, improved, mending, recovering, recuperating, rehabilitated
hardy, hearty, lusty, robust, rugged, stalwart, strong, tough
