Synonyms for unwholesome
- adjective
Most common
unhealthy morbid sickly unhealthful noxious pernicious unsound baneful
All synonyms
Adjective
unhealthy, noisome formal, unhealthful, bad, sickly, morbid, baneful, pernicious, noxious, loathsome, unsound, hurtful, deleterious, offensive, insalubrious, morbific, injurious, harmful, poisonous, destructive, detrimental, mischievous, pestiferous
Definitions
- adj. 1
Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful.
Related words
- Word family
- unwholesomeness
Example sentences
- unhealthy If you don’t do more exercise, you’ll be unhealthy.
- morbid He has a morbid fondness for murder mysteries.
- sickly Since childhood, Boldi has been a very sickly boy.
- noxious The old warehouse is no longer storing any noxious chemicals.
- pernicious A half-truth is more pernicious than a lie.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| unwholesome | steady | |
| unhealthy | rising | |
| morbid | rising | |
| sickly | rising | |
| unhealthful | falling | |
| noxious | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1
- 6 letters
- morbid2, sickly2
- 7 letters
- harmful2, hurtful2, noxious2, unsound2, noisome, baneful
- 8 letters
- morbific
- 9 letters
- offensive3, unhealthy3, poisonous3, loathsome2, injurious4
- 10 letters
- pernicious3
- 11 letters
- destructive3, detrimental4, mischievous3, deleterious5, unhealthful3, pestiferous
- 12 letters
- insalubrious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (morbid2 = 2 syllables).