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English
Etymology
un- + healthy
Pronunciation
Adjective
unhealthy (comparative unhealthier or more unhealthy, superlative unhealthiest or most unhealthy)
- characterized by, or conducive to poor health
The villagers lived in unhealthy surroundings.
- sick or ill
He was an unhealthy child.
- tending to corrupt
He liked unhealthy reading material.
- characterized by disturbed mental health
He had an unhealthy interest in fire.
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Translations
conducive to poor health
- Arabic: غَيْر صِحِّيّ (ḡayr ṣiḥḥiyy)
- Armenian: վատառողջ (hy) (vataṙoġǰ)
- Belarusian: шкадлі́вы (škadlívy), шко́дны (škódny), нездаро́вы (njezdaróvy)
- Bulgarian: вре́ден (bg) (vréden), нездраавословен (nezdraavosloven)
- Catalan: insalubre (ca)
- Czech: nezdravý m
- Dutch: ongezond (nl)
- Esperanto: malsana
- Estonian: ebatervislik
- Finnish: epäterveellinen (fi)
- French: malsain (fr), mauvais pour la santé
- German: ungesund (de), gesundheitsschädlich (de)
- Greek: νοσηρός (el) (nosirós), ανθυγιεινός (el) (anthygieinós)
- Hungarian: egészségtelen (hu)
- Ingrian: vrednoi
- Italian: malsano (it), insalubre (it)
- Latin: aeger (la), aegrotus
- Luxembourgish: ongesond
- Polish: niezdrowy (pl)
- Portuguese: insalubre (pt)
- Romanian: nesănătos (ro)
- Russian: вре́дный (ru) (vrédnyj) (для здоро́вья), нездоро́вый (ru) (nezdoróvyj)
- Slovak: nezdravý
- Swedish: ohälsosam (sv), hälsovådlig (sv)
- Turkish: sağlıksız (tr)
- Ukrainian: шкідли́вий (škidlývyj), нездоро́вий (nezdoróvyj)
- Welsh: afiach (cy)
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characterized by disturbed mental health