Antonyms of adj unhealthy
3 senses of unhealthy
Sense 1
unhealthy (vs. healthy) -- (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers")
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")
Sense 2
insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy -- (detrimental to health)
INDIRECT (VIA unwholesome) -> wholesome -- (conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food")
Sense 3
unhealthy -- (not conducive to good health; "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate")
INDIRECT (VIA unhealthful) -> healthful -- (conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance")
Similarity of adj unhealthy
3 senses of unhealthy
Sense 1
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)
Also See-> frail#1; ill#1, sick#1; unfit#2; unwholesome#1
Sense 2
insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy -- (detrimental to health)
=> unwholesome (vs. wholesome) -- (detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking")
Sense 3
unhealthy -- (not conducive to good health; "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate")
=> unhealthful (vs. healthful) -- (detrimental to good health; "unhealthful air pollution"; "unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint")
