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单词 unhealthy
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Definition of unhealthy in English:

unhealthy

adjectiveunhealthier, unhealthiestʌnˈhɛlθiˌənˈhɛlθi
  • 1Harmful to health.

    an unhealthy diet
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Home-grown food improves the diet and bypasses many unhealthy aspects of production and distribution.
    • Sweating off the pounds can be an unhealthy, even dangerous and potentially fatal way to lighten your load.
    • And it could become more of a problem in Asia as unhealthy elements in Western diets are adopted.
    • But probably the most dangerously unhealthy practice in sport is the use of performance enhancing drugs.
    • The lesson I learned that day: Obesity can be a dangerous and unhealthy condition.
    • The average UK diet contains unhealthy levels of saturated fats, with dairy products being the main source of the problem.
    • On the other hand, many sour and bitter foods were either unhealthy or poisonous for early humans.
    • We could try to regulate every aspect of the lives of everyone, so that all unhealthy or risky practices were eliminated.
    • How about all the lives lost through unhealthy and dangerous working conditions, for which no compensation was ever awarded to the victims?
    • I actually have a really unhealthy diet that ought to make me gain weight, but it doesn't.
    • This contributes to stress-induced health conditions and unhealthy living patterns.
    • Studies show that static seating is dangerous and unhealthy.
    • Men don't usually worry about diets or unhealthy lifestyles until they find themselves facing a health problem.
    • There is some evidence to suggest that obesity and an unhealthy diet may also increase the risk of cancers such colorectal cancer.
    • If fat is unhealthy, but diets don't work, what then are you suggesting?
    • Fever should not be regarded as a dangerous or unhealthy process in the body.
    • In the winter, the place will still be drafty, cold, and dangerously unhealthy.
    • This is unsightly, unhygienic and, given the present climate of contagious illness, positively unhealthy.
    • They are forced to work under dangerous and unhealthy conditions, often for months without days off, according to a city report.
    • Prisoners of war interned in unhealthy areas, or where the climate is injurious for them, shall be removed as soon as possible to a more favourable climate.
    Synonyms
    harmful, detrimental, destructive, injurious, damaging, deleterious, ruinous, malign, noxious, poisonous, insalubrious, baleful
    risky, dangerous, perilous
    1. 1.1 Not having or showing good health.
      his skin looked pale and unhealthy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • How can we be healthy in a holistic way, if we are deprived this view of ourselves or if we only see ourselves portrayed as damaged and unhealthy?
      • Towns were becoming more unhealthy, poisoning themselves with their own human, animal, and industrial wastes.
      Synonyms
      ill-looking, ill, unwell, in poor health, ailing, sick, sickly, poorly, indisposed, unsound, unfit, weak, feeble, frail, delicate, debilitated, infirm, valetudinarian, washed out, run down, peaky, out of condition/shape, in poor condition/shape
    2. 1.2 (of a person's attitude or behaviour) not sensible or well balanced.
      an unhealthy obsession with fast cars
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Only about a quarter of the effect is likely to have been due to unhealthy behaviour, such as smoking.
      • Stereotypes should be challenged and unhealthy attitudes towards relationships with women revised.
      • By making us aware of the origins of our unhealthy behaviour, psychoanalysis helps us to adapt to external reality.
      • That's the kind of thing that probably causes ulcers, and as such probably also foments very unhealthy attitudes.
      • And besides, having such an unhealthy attitude does one no good at all.
      • This concern is associated with an increased risk of women engaging in unhealthy eating behaviours.
      • Information is provided that warns of the severity and likelihood of consequences of unhealthy behaviours.
      • Besides, this is an unhealthy outlook on consumer fashion.
      • Peer education is considered an effective way to change youth attitudes and unhealthy life patterns.
      • Either way, I would not want to fall into the unhealthy mindset of the programme which encouraged viewers to judge the wives on their successes and failures.
      • Is our current food obsession unhealthy, a sign of decadence even?
      • However, don't take this attitude to an unhealthy extreme; everything you most want to believe is not automatically wrong.
      • The law alone cannot change this unhealthy attitude.
      • And here lies his evolutionary explanation of unhealthy behaviour.
      • I would call it an unhealthy obsession, except I have too many of my own.
      • We know that, where people feel good about themselves and about their environment, they are less likely to indulge in unhealthy behaviour.
      • In our study, heightened stress showed typical associations with unhealthy behaviour.
      • While she didn't have a problem with alcohol, she admits she had an unhealthy attitude to eating for a while.
      • I used to worry that this was unhealthy, obsessive behaviour and speculated frequently about its causes.
      • Others would argue, of course, that Dawn and her husband are contributing to our society's already unhealthy attitude toward women.
      Synonyms
      unwholesome, undesirable, morbid, macabre, ghoulish, twisted, warped, depraved, abnormal, unnatural
      informal sick

Derivatives

  • unhealthily

  • adverbʌnˈhɛlθɪliˌənˈhɛlθəli
    • ‘There's no doubt that the trend to use spaced out and unhealthily thin models has not died down,’ says the well-known South Beach fashion photographer.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I'm not entirely convinced that I am lonely… but given how unhealthily grateful I am for any human kindness… well… I have to at least entertain the idea.
      • Miss Collins said: ‘One of the biggest problems in the world is that people are eating so unhealthily.’
      • In most instances, that moment is the first sexual encounter - a moment that is hopefully full of beauty, but oftentimes happens in an offhand manner or, worst of all, hurtfully and unhealthily.
      • A man at war with himself, Bosie is unhealthily influenced by two men: his stern, disapproving father, the Marquess of Queensberry, and Oscar Wilde.
  • unhealthiness

  • nounʌnˈhɛlθɪnəsˌənˈhɛlθinəs
    • I tried to write a bit of a story around this record - it's a story about a girl's loneliness, unhealthiness and [her] struggle with beauty.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But when they talk about the victim culture, I grudgingly shut my mouth in acknowledgement of the unhealthiness of it.
      • As well, there is the sentimental subplot thrown in, in which Murray has a daughter who's upset by her father's potentially lethal unhealthiness.
      • We may have to try and squeeze in a healthy lunch between all the unhealthiness there.
      • Scott attributed the early deaths of several brothers and sisters born before him to ‘the unhealthiness of the situation’.
 
 

Definition of unhealthy in US English:

unhealthy

adjectiveˌənˈhɛlθiˌənˈhelTHē
  • 1Harmful to health.

    an unhealthy diet
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The average UK diet contains unhealthy levels of saturated fats, with dairy products being the main source of the problem.
    • Studies show that static seating is dangerous and unhealthy.
    • On the other hand, many sour and bitter foods were either unhealthy or poisonous for early humans.
    • Sweating off the pounds can be an unhealthy, even dangerous and potentially fatal way to lighten your load.
    • In the winter, the place will still be drafty, cold, and dangerously unhealthy.
    • And it could become more of a problem in Asia as unhealthy elements in Western diets are adopted.
    • There is some evidence to suggest that obesity and an unhealthy diet may also increase the risk of cancers such colorectal cancer.
    • How about all the lives lost through unhealthy and dangerous working conditions, for which no compensation was ever awarded to the victims?
    • Fever should not be regarded as a dangerous or unhealthy process in the body.
    • They are forced to work under dangerous and unhealthy conditions, often for months without days off, according to a city report.
    • Home-grown food improves the diet and bypasses many unhealthy aspects of production and distribution.
    • This contributes to stress-induced health conditions and unhealthy living patterns.
    • I actually have a really unhealthy diet that ought to make me gain weight, but it doesn't.
    • We could try to regulate every aspect of the lives of everyone, so that all unhealthy or risky practices were eliminated.
    • But probably the most dangerously unhealthy practice in sport is the use of performance enhancing drugs.
    • The lesson I learned that day: Obesity can be a dangerous and unhealthy condition.
    • If fat is unhealthy, but diets don't work, what then are you suggesting?
    • This is unsightly, unhygienic and, given the present climate of contagious illness, positively unhealthy.
    • Prisoners of war interned in unhealthy areas, or where the climate is injurious for them, shall be removed as soon as possible to a more favourable climate.
    • Men don't usually worry about diets or unhealthy lifestyles until they find themselves facing a health problem.
    Synonyms
    harmful, detrimental, destructive, injurious, damaging, deleterious, ruinous, malign, noxious, poisonous, insalubrious, baleful
    1. 1.1 Not having or showing good health.
      his face looked pale and unhealthy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Towns were becoming more unhealthy, poisoning themselves with their own human, animal, and industrial wastes.
      • How can we be healthy in a holistic way, if we are deprived this view of ourselves or if we only see ourselves portrayed as damaged and unhealthy?
      Synonyms
      ill-looking, ill, unwell, in poor health, ailing, sick, sickly, poorly, indisposed, unsound, unfit, weak, feeble, frail, delicate, debilitated, infirm, valetudinarian, washed out, run down, peaky, out of condition, out of shape, in poor condition, in poor shape
    2. 1.2 (of a person's attitude or behavior) not sensible or well balanced; abnormal and harmful.
      an unhealthy obsession with fast cars
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I used to worry that this was unhealthy, obsessive behaviour and speculated frequently about its causes.
      • I would call it an unhealthy obsession, except I have too many of my own.
      • This concern is associated with an increased risk of women engaging in unhealthy eating behaviours.
      • Stereotypes should be challenged and unhealthy attitudes towards relationships with women revised.
      • And here lies his evolutionary explanation of unhealthy behaviour.
      • Either way, I would not want to fall into the unhealthy mindset of the programme which encouraged viewers to judge the wives on their successes and failures.
      • Is our current food obsession unhealthy, a sign of decadence even?
      • Besides, this is an unhealthy outlook on consumer fashion.
      • And besides, having such an unhealthy attitude does one no good at all.
      • Peer education is considered an effective way to change youth attitudes and unhealthy life patterns.
      • While she didn't have a problem with alcohol, she admits she had an unhealthy attitude to eating for a while.
      • In our study, heightened stress showed typical associations with unhealthy behaviour.
      • However, don't take this attitude to an unhealthy extreme; everything you most want to believe is not automatically wrong.
      • By making us aware of the origins of our unhealthy behaviour, psychoanalysis helps us to adapt to external reality.
      • The law alone cannot change this unhealthy attitude.
      • We know that, where people feel good about themselves and about their environment, they are less likely to indulge in unhealthy behaviour.
      • Information is provided that warns of the severity and likelihood of consequences of unhealthy behaviours.
      • That's the kind of thing that probably causes ulcers, and as such probably also foments very unhealthy attitudes.
      • Others would argue, of course, that Dawn and her husband are contributing to our society's already unhealthy attitude toward women.
      • Only about a quarter of the effect is likely to have been due to unhealthy behaviour, such as smoking.
      Synonyms
      unwholesome, undesirable, morbid, macabre, ghoulish, twisted, warped, depraved, abnormal, unnatural
 
 
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