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 | ||