English > unhealthy: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind. |
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| Example | "unhealthy ulcers" |
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| Attribute of | health, wellness | A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease |
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| Narrower | angry | severely inflamed and painful |
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| arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy | Of or pertaining to arthritis |
| asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy | relating to breathing with a whistling sound |
| bad, unfit, unsound | physically unsound or diseased |
| blebby, blistery | Covered with small blisters |
| bloodshot | (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels |
| cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous | Having an ulcer or canker |
| carbuncled, carbuncular | Afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle |
| carious | (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay |
| caseous | Of damaged or necrotic tissue |
| chilblained | Having chilblains |
| colicky, flatulent, gassy | Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal |
| cytomegalic | Of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells |
| dehydrated | Suffering from excessive loss of water from the body |
| diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological | Caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology |
| edematous, dropsical | Swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid |
| enlarged | larger / larger than normal |
| foaming, foamy, frothing | producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease |
| gangrenous, mortified | Suffering from tissue death |
| inflamed | Resulting from inflammation |
| inflammatory | Characterized or caused by inflammation |
| ingrowing, ingrown | Growing abnormally into the flesh |
| jaundiced, icteric, yellow | affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc |
| membranous, membrane-forming | Characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane) |
| mental | affected by a disorder of the mind |
| proinflammatory, pro-inflammatory | tending to cause inflammation |
| puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid | abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas |
| sallow, sickly | unhealthy looking |
| sore-eyed | Having sore eyes |
| sunburned, sunburnt | Suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight |
| varicose | abnormally swollen or knotty |
| windburned, windburnt | Suffering from windburn |
| See also | frail | physically weak |
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| ill, sick | Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function |
| unfit | not in good physical or mental condition |
| unsound | not sound financially |
| unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being |
| Opposite | healthy | Having or indicating good health in body or mind |
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| Spanish | enfermizo, insano |
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| Catalan | malaltís |
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| Nouns | unhealthiness | a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain |
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