Synonyms: unhealthful
Definition: detrimental to good health
Usage: unhealthful air pollution; unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint
Similar words: incapacitating, crippling, disabling
Definition: that cripples or disables or incapacitates
Usage: a crippling injury
Similar words: cytopathogenic
Definition: of or relating to or causing pathological changes in cells
Similar words: infective, pathogenic, morbific
Definition: able to cause disease
Usage: infective agents; pathogenic bacteria
Similar words: nonmedicinal, unmedical, unmedicative, unmedicinal
Definition: not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed
Usage: he took mind-altering drugs for nonmedicinal reasons
Similar words: unhealthy
Definition: not conducive to good health
Usage: an unhealthy diet of fast foods; an unhealthy climate
Synonyms: insanitary, unhealthful, unsanitary
Definition: not sanitary or healthful
Usage: unsanitary open sewers; grim and unsanitary conditions
Similar words: unhygienic
Definition: unclean and constituting a likely cause of disease
Usage: pathetic dogs kept in small unhygienic cages
Synonyms: insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy
Definition: detrimental to health
Similar words: unwholesome
Definition: detrimental to physical or moral well-being
Usage: unwholesome food; unwholesome habits like smoking