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UNWHOLESOME
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Detrimental to physical or moral well-being
Example:
unwholesome habits like smoking
Classified under:
Similar:
insalubrious; unhealthful; unhealthy (detrimental to health)
insubstantial (lacking in nutritive value)
morbid (suggesting an unhealthy mental state)
loathsome; nauseating; nauseous; noisome; offensive; queasy; sickening; vile (causing or able to cause nausea)
rich (containing plenty of fat, or eggs, or sugar)
Also:
harmful (causing or capable of causing harm)
unhealthful (detrimental to good health)
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
noxious (injurious to physical or mental health)
unsound (not sound financially)
Antonym:
wholesome (conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being)
Derivation:
unwholesomeness (the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you)
Context examples:
I might have gone on in this figurative manner, if Dora's face had not admonished me that she was wondering with all her might whether I was going to propose any new kind of vaccination, or other medical remedy, for this unwholesome state of ours.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They must not over-salt the leg; and then, if it is not over-salted, and if it is very thoroughly boiled, just as Serle boils ours, and eaten very moderately of, with a boiled turnip, and a little carrot or parsnip, I do not consider it unwholesome.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was not that he looked many years older, though still dressed with the old scrupulous cleanliness; or that there was an unwholesome ruddiness upon his face; or that his eyes were full and bloodshot; or that there was a nervous trembling in his hand, the cause of which I knew, and had for some years seen at work.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
