unhealthful

Questions about unhealthful

What does unhealthful mean?

unhealthful means "not sanitary or healthful". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unhealthful?

unhealthful has 3 syllables: un-health-ful. The stress falls on "health". In IPA it is /ənˈhɛlθfəl/.

What is another word for unhealthful?

Close synonyms include unsanitary, insanitary, insalubrious, unhealthy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unhealthful?

The recorded antonyms are healthful.

Is unhealthful a common word?

unhealthful is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with unhealthful?

1 word rhymes with unhealthful. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.