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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unwholesome |
| Synonyms: | contaminated, dangerous, detrimental, harmful, insalubrious, noxious, toxic, unhealthy, unsalutary, unsanitary |
| Antonyms: | healthful, healthy, salubrious, salutary, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | noxious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly, injurious |
| Synonyms: | baneful, corrupting, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, fetid, foul, harmful, hurtful, insalubrious, insalutary, noisome, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, putrid, sickly, spoiled, stinking, toxic, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome, venomous, virulent |
| Notes: | noxious means injurious to physical or mental health; obnoxious means very offensive, objectionable, or unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | curing, good, healthy, helpful, hygienic, pure, sterile, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | unclean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty |
| Synonyms: | bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, black, blurred, common, contaminated, corrupt, decayed, defiled, desecrated, dusty, evil, feculent, fetid, filthy, foul, grimy, impure, messy, muddy, nasty, polluted, profaned, putrescent, putrid, rancid, rank, rotten, sloppy, slovenly, smeared, smudged, soiled, sooty, sordid, spotted, squalid, stable, stained, stale, stinking, sullied, tainted, tarnished, unhealthful, vile |
| Antonyms: | clean, hygienic, uncontaminated, unpolluted |
| Main Entry: | unhealthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad in effect on well-being |
| Synonyms: | baneful, chancy, corrupt, corrupting, dangerous, degenerate, degrading, deleterious, demoralizing, detrimental, harmful, hazardous, insalubrious, jeopardous, morbid, nefarious, negative, noisome, noxious, perilous, perverse, poisonous, risky, rotten, treacherous, undesirable, unhealthful, unsanitary, unsound, unwholesome, villainous, virulent, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good, healthy |
| Main Entry: | unsanitary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty, unclean |
| Synonyms: | contaminated, dusty, filthy, foul, grimy, messy, muddy, polluted, rancid, rank, rotten, sloppy, soiled, stained, stinking, sullied, tarnished, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic |
| Main Entry: | unwholesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhealthy |
| Synonyms: | baneful, corrupt, decayed, deleterious, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, immoral, impure, inimical, insalubrious, malignant, morbid, noxious, offensive, pathological, pernicious, poisonous, repulsive, toxic, unclean, unhealthful, unsound |
| Antonyms: | proper, seemly |
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