unwholesome

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Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
22
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˌənˈhoʊlsəm/
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/ˌənˈhoʊlsəm/ · /ˌənˈhəʊlsəm/

Definition of unwholesome

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful.
    “unwholesome air, or food”
    “Caliban: As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore.”
    “Alas! he mastered not his destiny: I have said before, his ashes are in yonder urn. A few unwholesome dews on a summer night were mightier than all his science.”
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adj

  1. Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful.
    “unwholesome air, or food”
    “Caliban: As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore.”
    “Alas! he mastered not his destiny: I have said before, his ashes are in yonder urn. A few unwholesome dews on a summer night were mightier than all his science.”
  2. Not sound; tainted; defective.
    “There was something indefinably unwholesome about him. Something lean and snakelike.”
  3. Indicating unsound health; characteristic of or suggesting an unsound condition, physical or mental; repulsive; offensive.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English unholsom; equivalent to un- + wholesome.

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