unfitness
- noun
- /ʌnˈfɪtnəs/
:
falta de condición física
- Consequently, these and other study findings have challenged teachers and researchers to formulate new strategies in order to reverse the apparent trend towards unfitness among America's youth (Ross & Gilbert, 1987).
- physical unfitness
Examples
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The doctor explained that his unfitness was primarily due to inactivity and suggested an exercise regimen to improve his health.
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Another reason that teachers rated the recommended strategies so highly may be that they perceive that more fitness activities of any kind should be offered in order to better address the problems of youth unfitness.
Academic text (1992) -
I start by laying out the basic dual scheme overarching Mill's writings at this moment, that between formed and unformed character, correlated to fitness and unfitness for certain kinds of politics.
Academic text (2016) -
After months of sedentary living, her health deteriorated, leading to a state of unfitness that concerned her family.
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The survey revealed alarming levels of unfitness among children due to a lack of physical activity and poor dietary choices.
Synonyms
103
1.0
A time when your body is not healthy
18
3.4
How healthy and fit a person's body is
9
5.4
Not able to do things because your body or mind does not work well
8
6.6
A weakness that makes it hard to do everyday things, often after illness or old age
7
3.0
Being sick or having a long-term problem with your body
3
5.0
A state of being physically weak often from old age or illness
1
3.9
A state of poor physical condition that causes problems
1
4.8
A state of being physically weak because of age or illness
1
8.2
Weakness in the body that follows illness or old age
A time when a person feels sick or has health problems
Weak health that often appears in older people
A lack of energy and strength that often follows an illness
A state of being weak, tired and no longer effective
Antonyms
How Fit
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unfitness comes from un- meaning 'not' and fit meaning 'healthy' or 'in shape', the same 'fit' you see in fitness. So unfitness describes the state of not being in good physical health or shape.