unhealthful
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4.8
- adjective
- /ʌnˈhɛlθfəl/
:
insalubre
- Breathing unhealthful air can lead to serious health issues over time.
- unhealthful behaviors
- unhealthful practices
And we don't have a definitive study that says for most people who are trying to avoid heart disease and aging, it's a helpful, unhealthful food.
- And we don't have a definitive study that says for most people who are trying to avoid heart disease and aging, it's a helpful, unhealthful food.
Examples
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It's the hydrogenated, over-processed oils and fats that are unhealthful.
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Each day, nearly half of all Americans go about their daily lives breathing unhealthful levels of ozone pollution.
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We have unhealthful air quality today throughout the Los Angeles Basin.
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Get off the junk food and unhealthful habits of hanging with the crowd that limits your ability to pursue your life.
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Physicians have been and always will be responsible for using their knowledge to let their patients know which habits are unhealthful and how to change them, and for exercising their authority to encourage such change.
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Washington and Baltimore are the major cities nearest to the study area, so unhealthful concentrations of ozone are present and available for transport throughout the region.
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Prior studies have been quantitative in nature and have attempted to examine the effects of exposure to rap and how it relates to certain unhealthful behaviors.
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In addition to product reformulations, unhealthful foods were eliminated, and healthful substitutions and additions were introduced.
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They observed a strong association between psychological stress and unhealthful weight control practices (vomiting, fasting, and binge eating) among healthy adults.
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Low SES is associated with greater risk of ill health and premature death, partly attributable to disproportionately high prevalence of unhealthful lifestyle practices and physical and mental health conditions.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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1.5
Likely to cause harm or injury
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2.6
Causing damage to people, animals or things
117
1.6
Not good for your health and likely to cause illness
93
1.1
Likely to cause harm to people or damage to things
16
3.7
Not clean and likely to cause illness
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6.3
Harmful to health or to how someone behaves
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4.8
Not clean and likely to make people sick
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6.9
Dirty and likely to cause disease
A place that makes people likely to get sick
Antonyms
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unhealthful starts with un- meaning 'not' and the rest is healthful, made from health and -ful meaning 'full of health', so unhealthful literally means 'not full of health' and therefore 'harmful or bad for your health'.