Unhealthful

Definition: Unhealthful

Unhealthful

Adjective

1. Not sanitary or healthful; "unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions".

2. Detrimental to good health; "unhealthful air pollution"; "unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint".

3. Detrimental to health.

Non-Fiction Usage: Unhealthful

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	ITALY	There also are specific restrictions on employment in hazardous or unhealthful occupations for men under age 18, and women under age 21. The enforcement of minimum wage laws is difficult in the extensive underground economy. (references)
Worker Rights	Argentina	Workers have the right to remove themselves from dangerous or unhealthful work situations, after having gone through a claim procedure, without jeopardy to continued employment. (references)
	Italy	The law forbids the employment of children under age 15 (with some limited exceptions), and there are specific restrictions on employment in hazardous or unhealthful occupations for men under age 18, and women under age 21; however, these laws were not respected fully in practice. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Unhealthful

"Unhealthful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unhealthful" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translation: Unhealthful

Language		Translations for "unhealthful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		ungesund (harmful, insalubrious, insanitary, unhealthily, unhealthy, unsanitary, unsoundly, unwholesome). (various references)

Greek		ανθυγιεινόσ (insanitary, unhealthy, unsanitary, unwholesome). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不健全 (morbid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふけ�"ぜ�" (morbid). (various references)

Pig Latin		ealthfulunhay

Spanish		malsano (morbid, sickly, unhealthy, unsanitary, unwholesome). (various references)

Vietnamese		hại sức khoẻ, độc (deleterious, insalubrious, noxious, poisonous, toxic, toxicant). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "Unhealthful"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unhealthful" (pronounced unhe"lthful)
7	-h e" l th f u l	healthful.
4	-th f u l	faithful, truthful, unfaithful, untruthful, youthful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, tuneful, uneventful, ungrateful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, zestful.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Anagrams: Unhealthful

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-h-h-l-l-n-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: healthful.
	-3 letters: lunulate, unlethal.
	-4 letters: hateful, lunulae, tuneful, ululant, ululate.
	-5 letters: eluant, fallen, fellah, flaunt, fluent, hantle, hatful, health, lethal, lunate, lunula, lunule, luteal, nullah, thenal, unfelt.
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