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unhealthful

unhealthful adjective: not promoting health; detrimental to health.

Adjective

unhealthful (comparative more unhealthful, superlative most unhealthful)

  1. Not promoting health; detrimental to health.
    • An unhealthful diet and lack of exercise are common causes for heart disease.
    Synonyms:
    insalubrious

Synonyms of unhealthful

Forms of unhealthful

comparativemore unhealthful
superlativemost unhealthful

Origin of unhealthful

From un- + healthful.

Words formed from unhealthful

Questions about unhealthful

What does unhealthful mean?
Unhealthful means not promoting health; detrimental to health.
What part of speech is unhealthful?
Unhealthful is an adjective.

Words near unhealthful in the dictionary

  1. unhealably
  2. unhealed
  3. unhealing
  4. unheals
  5. unhealth
  6. unhealthful
  7. unhealthfully
  8. unhealthfulness
  9. unhealthier
  10. unhealthiest
  11. unhealthily

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