English adjective: unhealthful | |||
| 1. | unhealthful not sanitary or healthful | ||
| Samples | Unsanitary open sewers. Grim and unsanitary conditions. | ||
| Synonyms | insanitary, unsanitary | ||
| Similar | unhygienic | ||
| Antonyms | sanitary, healthful | ||
| 2. | unhealthful detrimental to good health | ||
| Samples | Unhealthful air pollution. Unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint. | ||
| Similar | crippling, cytopathogenic, disabling, incapacitating, infective, morbific, nonmedicinal, pathogenic, unhealthy, unmedical, unmedicative, unmedicinal | ||
| See also | infected, septic, toxic, unwholesome | ||
| Antonyms | healthful | ||
| 3. | unhealthful detrimental to health | ||
| Synonyms | insalubrious, unhealthy | ||
| Similar | unwholesome | ||
| Antonyms | wholesome | ||