unhealthy

«unhealthy» in Mova's school dictionary: Not good for your health: "unhealthy food" — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (unhealthy, unhealthier, unhealthiest, or more/most unhealthy)

meaning for a pupil

1) Not good for your health: "unhealthy food". tree →

2) Not well, or looking ill: "an unhealthy plant". tree →

3) Not good or normal: "an unhealthy friendship". tree →

sense in the lessons

In health lessons pupils learn to eat fewer unhealthy foods, like sweets, crisps and fizzy drinks, and to be active. In science, an unhealthy plant may have yellow leaves. Phrases: unhealthy food, unhealthy habits, unhealthy snacks.

examples

• Too many sweets are unhealthy. tree →
• Sitting still all day is unhealthy. tree →
• The plant looked unhealthy without water. tree →
• Fried food is unhealthy if you eat it every day. tree →
• Smoking is very unhealthy. tree →
• Let us swap unhealthy snacks for fruit. tree →

note

"Un-" means not. Opposite: "healthy". "Unhealthy" usually describes food or habits; for being ill, say "ill", "sick" or "unwell". A treat sometimes is fine; the problem is eating unhealthy food too often.

In the corpora

• Some countries limit adverts for unhealthy food aimed at children.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unhealthy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.