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unholesome

unholesome is the obsolete spelling of unwholesome.

Meaning of unwholesome

Adjective

unwholesome (comparative more unwholesome, superlative most unwholesome)

  1. Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful.
    • unwholesome air, or food
  2. Not sound; tainted; defective.
    • There was something indefinably unwholesome about him. Something lean and snakelike.2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 184
  3. Indicating unsound health; characteristic of or suggesting an unsound condition, physical or mental; repulsive; offensive.

Forms of unholesome

comparativemore unholesome
superlativemost unholesome

Questions about unholesome

What is unholesome the obsolete spelling of?
Unholesome is the obsolete spelling of unwholesome.

Words near unholesome in the dictionary

  1. unholding
  2. unholds
  3. unhole
  4. unholed
  5. unholes
  6. unholesome
  7. unholiday
  8. unholidays
  9. unholier
  10. unholiest
  11. unholily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unholesome (page history and authors); unwholesome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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