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Synonyms: unhealthy Definition: not conducive to good health Usage: an unhealthy diet of fast foods; an unhealthy climate

Hypernyms: unhealthful Definition: detrimental to good health Usage: unhealthful air pollution; unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint

Synonyms: unhealthy Definition: not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind Usage: unhealthy ulcers

Hypernyms: angry Definition: severely inflamed and painful Usage: an angry sore

Hypernyms: arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy Definition: of or pertaining to arthritis Usage: my creaky old joints; rheumy with age and grief

Hypernyms: wheezing, wheezy, asthmatic Definition: relating to breathing with a whistling sound

Hypernyms: bad, unsound, unfit Definition: physically unsound or diseased Usage: has a bad back; a bad heart; bad teeth; an unsound limb; unsound teeth

Hypernyms: blebby, blistery Definition: covered with small blisters

Hypernyms: puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid, intumescent Definition: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas Usage: hungry children with bloated stomachs; he had a grossly distended stomach; eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids; swollen hands; tumescent tissue; puffy tumid flesh

Hypernyms: bloodshot Definition: (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed Usage: bloodshot eyes

Hypernyms: cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous Definition: having an ulcer or canker

Hypernyms: carbuncled, carbuncular Definition: afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle

Hypernyms: carious Definition: (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay

Hypernyms: caseous Definition: of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike

Hypernyms: chilblained Definition: having chilblains Usage: her poor chilblained hands

Hypernyms: colicky, gassy, flatulent Definition: suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal

Hypernyms: cytomegalic Definition: of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells

Hypernyms: dehydrated Definition: suffering from excessive loss of water from the body Usage: fever resulted from becoming dehydrated; was dehydrated after the marathon

Hypernyms: diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological Definition: caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology Usage: diseased tonsils; a morbid growth; pathologic tissue; pathological bodily processes

Hypernyms: dropsical, edematous Definition: swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid

Hypernyms: enlarged Definition: larger than normal Usage: enlarged joints

Hypernyms: frothing, foaming, foamy Definition: producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease Usage: the rabid animal's frothing mouth

Hypernyms: gangrenous, mortified Definition: suffering from tissue death

Hypernyms: inflamed Definition: resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened Usage: eyes inflamed with crying

Hypernyms: inflammatory Definition: characterized or caused by inflammation Usage: an inflammatory process; an inflammatory response

Hypernyms: ingrowing, ingrown Definition: growing abnormally into the flesh Usage: an ingrown toenail

Hypernyms: icteric, jaundiced, yellow Definition: affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

Hypernyms: membrane-forming, membranous Definition: characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane) Usage: membranous gastritis

Hypernyms: mental Definition: affected by a disorder of the mind Usage: a mental patient; mental illness

Hypernyms: pro-inflammatory, proinflammatory Definition: tending to cause inflammation

Hypernyms: sickly, sallow Definition: unhealthy looking

Hypernyms: sore-eyed Definition: having sore eyes; suffering from pinkeye or conjunctivitis

Hypernyms: sunburned, sunburnt Definition: suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight

Hypernyms: varicose Definition: abnormally swollen or knotty Usage: varicose veins

Hypernyms: windburned, windburnt Definition: suffering from windburn