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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unhealthy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unhealthy obsession (=an obsession that is not normal)
▪ Our society seems to have an unhealthy obsession with staying young.
poor/unhealthy
▪ A poor diet affects your skin and hair condition.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fear
▪ Your organization has simply lived too long with corrosive, unhealthy fear.
▪ Healthy fears block the path to failure, while unhealthy fears steer organizations away from growth and success.
▪ But unfortunately, they can also give rise to unhealthy fears.
▪ Finally, restricting has the inevitable consequence of spreading unhealthy fear throughout an organization.
▪ Low morale is an expression of the unhealthy fear that accompanies destructive core beliefs.
interest
▪ The other is to believe and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.
obsession
▪ The representation of sexuality here is of an unhealthy obsession.
▪ Soon after the departure of Roszak from Peace News McGrath had quit that paper, nursing an unhealthy obsession with drugs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An unhealthy diet is one that is too high in fat and sugar and too low in fibre.
▪ At the age of 30 I was fat, unhealthy, and smoked two packs of cigarettes a day.
▪ Eating all that junk food is really unhealthy.
▪ He has such an unhealthy lifestyle -- smoking, drinking, eating too much.
▪ James was a thin, pale, unhealthy child.
▪ My mother thought it was unhealthy to sleep with the windows shut at night.
▪ People who are very overweight tend to be more unhealthy than others.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Lindsey decided it was unhealthy, and that it had become divorce time.
▪ And they are given interpersonal strategies to avoid peer pressure to make these unhealthy choices.
▪ Competition characterises a healthy organisation and conflict an unhealthy organisation.
▪ One of them was a doctor, a large, unhealthy looking specimen with a huge warty nose covered in broken veins.
▪ Some managers come away from virtual reality demonstrations with unhealthy visions of holograms dancing in their heads.
▪ There's something rather unhealthy about this particular game.
▪ This is the unhealthy kind of denial.
▪ What may be unhealthy is the desire for instant transformations, the desire for that change to take place in an instant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unhealthy

1590s, "injurious to health," from un- (1) "not" + healthy (adj.). Earlier unhealthsome (1540s), unhealthful (1570s). Of persons, "sickly," it is attested from 1610s. Related: Unhealthily.

Wiktionary
unhealthy

a. 1 characterized by, or conducive to poor health 2 sick or ill 3 tending to corrupt 4 characterized by disturbed mental health

WordNet
unhealthy
  1. adj. not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers" [ant: healthy]

  2. detrimental to health [syn: insalubrious, unhealthful]

  3. not conducive to good health; "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate"

  4. [also: unhealthiest, unhealthier]

Usage examples of "unhealthy".

It contains allyl sulfide compounds which are decidedly unhealthy for aphids and caterpillars.

Then, when Asher raised his brows, the old man flushed an unhealthy, blotchy pink.

They have hardly passed, when large flocks of sheep and goats make their appearance, attended by shepherds and their families, driven by the approach of winter from the Appenines, and seeking the pastures of the Maremma, a rich, but, in the summer, an unhealthy tract on the coast.

Jordan - increased their unhealthy reliance on multilateral loans and foreign aid.

The light, crossed by the snow-flakes, flickers on his unhealthy face and stoutening figure.

If the same individual were to live under unfavorable conditions, without any education, if he were to find himself in unhealthy telluric surroundings, in a mine, a rice field, or a miasmatic swamp, he would become insane.

A lot of those people wound up in Siberian prison camps, which certainly did teach others of their kind to keep their unhealthy and unconstructive ideas to themselves.

Nor is the explanation far to seek, for the valleys afforded shelter to the wolves, and were in places obstructed by undrained marshes, unhealthy and unfitted for the herdsman and his flocks, and impenetrable as regards roads.

New England women who were already expressing an unhealthy interest in Arkansan custom.

They had at first considered staying around Salt Lake, but the stories they heard of Porter Rockwell, Bill Hickman, and others of the Danites, had given them the impression it might become extremely unhealthy in that region.

It was plainly unhealthy, perhaps because of the dampness and fungous growth in the cellar, the general sickish smell, the draughts of the hallways, or the quality of the well and pump water.

These unhealthy nondrinkers would drag down the odds for the entire population of nondrinkers and misleadingly make moderate drinkers look good.

Soy Zone Diet, you should focus on eating primarily monounsaturated fats while reducing your intake of unhealthy fats.

Traditional grain-based diets get most of their fat from grains and seed oils that are often rich in unhealthy Omega-6 fatty acids.

Whatever the unhealthy condition may be which gives rise to this troublesome symptom, it calls for prompt and skillful treatment, for the most trivial affections of these organs often pass into those that are exceedingly intractable, if not incurable.