- 1not having good health; showing a lack of good health They looked poor and unhealthy. unhealthy skin His eyeballs were an unhealthy yellow.
- 2harmful to your health; likely to make you sick unhealthy living conditions an unhealthy diet/lifestyle
- 3not normal and likely to be harmful synonym unwholesome He had an unhealthy interest in disease and death. opposite healthy
NAmE//ʌnˈhɛlθəli//
adverb She eats too unhealthily. He was unhealthily obsessed with past events.See unhealthy in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: unhealthy