unhealthy
- adjective
- /ʌnˈhɛlθi/
- All of these factors put adolescent girls at risk for unhealthy lifestyles.
- unhealthy food
- unhealthy eating
- unhealthy diet
So what do you do to manage these unhealthy coping behaviors?
- So what do you do to manage these unhealthy coping behaviors?
- And it's so easy when you're unhealthy to lie to yourself.
- So what do you do to manage these unhealthy coping behaviours?
- But then shame is unhealthy and I can do nothing about it.
- And all of that is going to create a very unhealthy unhappy environment.
- It's to move away from unhealthy stress back to healthy stress.
- The next assumption was you've had unhealthy eating habits in the past.
- Lots of carbs, lots of sugar, unhealthy fats, and a ton of salt.
- When we are metabolically unhealthy, our sleep suffers.
- And this is the case of someone being emotionally unhealthy themselves.
- I don't see myself being unhealthy, being overweight, binge eating.
Examples
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Childhood obesity is clearly associated with unhealthy eating habits and a lack of physical activity.
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And we're all going to stop doing unhealthy things starting today.
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You know, this is a very unhealthy place.
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It's unhealthy for the kid.
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For example, one study showed that girls were more likely to display unhealthy eating behaviors.
Academic text (2012) -
Childhood obesity is clearly associated with unhealthy eating habits and a lack of physical activity.
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That cereal is full of unhealthy ingredients.
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We also know that there tends to be more marketing of unhealthy foods in these communities.
Synonyms
Harmful to health or to how someone behaves
Not clean and likely to make people sick
Harmful to your health and likely to make you sick
Dirty and likely to cause disease
A place that makes people likely to get sick
Antonyms
Compounds
How Unhealthy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unhealthy is made of the prefix un- 'not' and healthy, and healthy comes from an old word meaning 'whole', like the English word whole. So unhealthy literally means 'not whole' or not well, which is why we use it for things that can make you ill.