unhealthy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

UNHEALTHY, adjective unhelth'y. 1. Wanting health; wanting a sound and vigorous state of body; habitually weak or indisposed; as an unhealthy person. 2. Unsound; wanting vigor of growth; as an unhealthy plant. 3. Sickly; abounding with disease; as an unhealthy season or city. 4. Insalubrious; unwholesome; adapted to generate diseases; as an unhealthy climate or country. 5. Morbid; not indicating health.
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