unhealthy

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Related topics: Illness & disability

un·health·y /ʌnˈhelθi/ adjectiveadj (comparativecomp unhealthier, superlativesupl unhealthiest)

1 HEALTHY#likely to make you ill 对健康有害的；会致病的

unhealthy living conditions

不利于健康的生活环境

2 OBSESSIONnot normal or natural and likely to be harmful 反常的；病态的

an unhealthy relationship

不正常的关系

unhealthy interest/obsession/fear etc

Gareth had an unhealthy interest in death.

加雷思对于死亡有种病态的兴趣。

3 MIHEALTHY#not physically healthy 〔身体〕不健康的 SYN ill, sick

an unhealthy baby

体弱的婴儿

4 MIHEALTHY#unhealthy skin, hair etc shows that you are ill or not healthy 〔皮肤、头发等〕显出病态的，显得不健康的

an unhealthy pale complexion

苍白的病容

—unhealthily adverbadv

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unhealthy• Eating all that junk food is really unhealthy.• There's something rather unhealthy about this particular game.• At the age of 30 I was fat, unhealthy, and smoked two packs of cigarettes a day.• And Lindsey decided it was unhealthy, and that it had become divorce time.• James was a thin, pale, unhealthy child.• And they are given interpersonal strategies to avoid peer pressure to make these unhealthy choices.• An unhealthy diet is one that is too high in fat and sugar and too low in fibre.• What may be unhealthy is the desire for instant transformations, the desire for that change to take place in an instant.• This is the unhealthy kind of denial.• He has such an unhealthy lifestyle -- smoking, drinking, eating too much.• One of them was a doctor, a large, unhealthy looking specimen with a huge warty nose covered in broken veins.• Competition characterises a healthy organisation and conflict an unhealthy organisation.• People who are very overweight tend to be more unhealthy than others.• My mother thought it was unhealthy to sleep with the windows shut at night.• Some managers come away from virtual reality demonstrations with unhealthy visions of holograms dancing in their heads.

unhealthy interest/obsession/fear etc• But unfortunately, they can also give rise to unhealthy fears.• The representation of sexuality here is of an unhealthy obsession.• Your organization has simply lived too long with corrosive, unhealthy fear.• The other is to believe and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.• Healthy fears block the path to failure, while unhealthy fears steer organizations away from growth and success.• Low morale is an expression of the unhealthy fear that accompanies destructive core beliefs.• Finally, restricting has the inevitable consequence of spreading unhealthy fear throughout an organization.• Soon after the departure of Roszak from Peace News McGrath had quit that paper, nursing an unhealthy obsession with drugs.

un·health·y adjectiveadj

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