Meaning | detrimental to good health. |
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Examples | - "unhealthful air pollution"
- "unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint"
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Narrower | crippling, disabling, incapacitating | That cripples or disables or incapacitates |
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cytopathogenic | Of or relating to or causing pathological changes in cells |
infective, morbific, pathogenic | able to cause disease |
unhealthy | not conducive to good health |
unmedicinal, unmedicative, unmedical, nonmedicinal | not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed |
See also | septic, infected | Containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms |
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toxic | Of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison |
unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being |
Opposite | healthful | conducive to good health of body or mind |
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Spanish | insalubre, insano |
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Nouns | unhealthfulness | the quality of promoting poor health |
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