| 单词 | unwholesome |
| 释义 | un·wholesome 1. < unwholesome food > < unwholesome pastimes > < keep your soul perpetually in the unwholesome region of remorse — Nathaniel Hawthorne > 2. a. < the people muddied … unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers — Shakespeare > < wild speculation and unwholesome overexpansion — American Guide Series: North Carolina > b. < bluebottles, swollen and unwholesome, crawled and buzzed — Mary Webb > Synonyms: < an unwholesome diet > < an unwholesome environment for children > < an aura about him of unwholesome cleverness — J.V.Baker > < unwholesome thoughts > < an unwholesome exaltation and relaxing revery — P.E.More > morbid applies not only to what is diseased, markedly unwholesome, deranged or similarly abnormal, or notably decadent but also to the fancies, feelings, or behavior resulting from or suggesting such conditions < a morbid condition of the liver > < the morbid mental habit of dwelling on death and physical decay > < a morbid fascination for crime and violence > sickly applies to what is a sign of or shows signs of marked lack of health, typically wanness, weakness, and marked general and often chronic absence of vigor, robustness, virility; it applies widely, for example to persons, animals, plants, feelings, behavior, and colors < the child was puny, white and sickly, so they sent continually for the doctor — Samuel Butler †1902 > < movie attendance is at the sickliest level in four years — Wall Street Journal > < a dark, tunnellike passage, through which came a deathly, sickly odor — Bram Stoker > < the sickly yellow of the sea lamps — Jack London > < a sickly smile > < sickly vines withering on the trellis > diseased applies not only to what has been attacked by disease but, like morbid, also to what is deranged or similarly abnormal, or markedly unwholesome < a diseased liver > < a diseased mind subject to self-deception > < the paralysis of a diseased will > pathological applies to physical, mental, or moral conditions which have their origin in disease or marked abnormality < a pathological wasting away > < pathological moods of depression > < a pathological fear of crowds > < almost pathological desire to cling to the ideal of unstained innocence — Charles Weir > |
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