Antonyms of adj healthier

1 sense of healthier

Sense 1
fitter, healthier -- (improved in health or physical condition)

INDIRECT (VIA better) -> worse, worsened -- (changed for the worse in health or fitness; "I feel worse today"; "her cold is worse")

Antonyms of adj healthy

5 senses of healthy

Sense 1
healthy (vs. unhealthy) -- (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy")

unhealthy (vs. healthy) -- (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers")
        => angry -- (severely inflamed and painful; "an angry sore")
        => arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy -- (of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief")
        => asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy -- (relating to breathing with a whistling sound)
        => bad, unfit, unsound -- (physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth")
        => blebby, blistery -- (covered with small blisters)
        => puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid -- (abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh")
        => bloodshot -- ((of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed; "bloodshot eyes")
        => cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous -- (having an ulcer or canker)
        => carbuncled, carbuncular -- (afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle)
        => carious -- ((of teeth) affected with cavities or decay)
        => caseous -- (of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike)
        => chilblained -- (having chilblains; "her poor chilblained hands")
        => colicky, flatulent, gassy -- (suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal)
        => cytomegalic -- (of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells)
        => dehydrated -- (suffering from excessive loss of water from the body; "fever resulted from becoming dehydrated"; "was dehydrated after the marathon")
        => diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological -- (caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes")
        => edematous, dropsical -- (swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid)
        => enlarged -- (larger than normal; "enlarged joints")
        => foaming, foamy, frothing -- (producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth")
        => gangrenous, mortified -- (suffering from tissue death)
        => inflamed -- (resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened; "eyes inflamed with crying")
        => inflammatory -- (characterized or caused by inflammation; "an inflammatory process"; "an inflammatory response")
        => ingrowing, ingrown -- (growing abnormally into the flesh; "an ingrown toenail")
        => jaundiced, icteric, yellow -- (affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc)
        => membranous, membrane-forming -- (characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane); "membranous gastritis")
        => mental -- (affected by a disorder of the mind; "a mental patient"; "mental illness")
        => proinflammatory, pro-inflammatory -- (tending to cause inflammation)
        => sallow, sickly -- (unhealthy looking)
        => sore-eyed -- (having sore eyes; suffering from pinkeye or conjunctivitis)
        => sunburned, sunburnt -- (suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight)
        => varicose -- (abnormally swollen or knotty; "varicose veins")
        => windburned, windburnt -- (suffering from windburn)

Sense 2
healthy -- (financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy")

INDIRECT (VIA sound) -> unsound -- (not sound financially; "unsound banking practices")

Sense 3
healthy, salubrious, good for you (predicate) -- (promoting health; healthful; "a healthy diet"; "clean healthy air"; "plenty of healthy sleep"; "healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy"; "the salubrious mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis; "carrots are good for you")

INDIRECT (VIA wholesome) -> unwholesome -- (detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking")

Sense 4
healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound -- (exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision")

INDIRECT (VIA reasonable) -> unreasonable -- (not reasonable; not showing good judgment)

Sense 5
goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy -- (large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune")

INDIRECT (VIA considerable) -> inconsiderable -- (too small or unimportant to merit attention; "passed his life in an inconsiderable village"; "their duties were inconsiderable"; "had no inconsiderable influence")

Similarity of adj healthier

1 sense of healthier

Sense 1
fitter, healthier -- (improved in health or physical condition)
       => better (vs. worse) -- ((comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness; "her health is better now"; "I feel better")

Similarity of adj healthy

5 senses of healthy

Sense 1
healthy (vs. unhealthy) -- (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy")
       => flushed, rose-cheeked, rosy, rosy-cheeked -- (having the pinkish flush of health)
       => bouncing -- (vigorously healthy; "a bouncing baby")
       => firm -- (possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue; "firm muscles")
       => good, sound -- (in excellent physical condition; "good teeth"; "I still have one good leg"; "a sound mind in a sound body")
       => hale, whole -- (exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health; "hale and hearty"; "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again")
       => hearty -- (consuming abundantly and with gusto; "a hearty (or healthy) appetite")
       => hearty, full-blooded, lusty, red-blooded -- (endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a hearty glow of health")
       => anicteric -- (not affected by jaundice)
       => rock-loving -- (of plants that flourish in a rocky environment)
       => rubicund, ruddy, florid, sanguine -- (inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion")
       => sun-loving -- ((of plants) flourishing in strong sunlight)
       => water-loving -- ((of plants) flourishing with lots of water)
       => well-preserved -- (used of older persons who are healthy)
       => wholesome -- (sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind; "exercise develops wholesome appetites"; "a grin on his ugly wholesome face")
          Also See-> fit#3; robust#1; well#1; wholesome#1

Sense 2
healthy -- (financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy")
       => sound (vs. unsound) -- (financially secure and safe; "sound investments"; "a sound economy")

Sense 3
healthy, salubrious, good for you (predicate) -- (promoting health; healthful; "a healthy diet"; "clean healthy air"; "plenty of healthy sleep"; "healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy"; "the salubrious mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis; "carrots are good for you")
       => wholesome (vs. unwholesome) -- (conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food")

Sense 4
healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound -- (exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision")
       => reasonable (vs. unreasonable), sensible -- (showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person")

Sense 5
goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy -- (large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune")
       => considerable (vs. inconsiderable) -- (large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree; "a considerable quantity"; "the economy was a considerable issue in the campaign"; "went to considerable trouble for us"; "spent a considerable amount of time on the problem")

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