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Damaging vs Unhealthy - What's the difference?

damaging | unhealthy | Related terms |

Damaging is a related term of unhealthy.


As adjectives the difference between damaging and unhealthy

is that damaging is harmful; injurious; causing damage while unhealthy is characterized by, or conducive to poor health.

As a verb damaging

is .

damaging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
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    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging , but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)

    • unhealthy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • characterized by, or conducive to poor health
    • The villagers lived in unhealthy surroundings.
  • sick or ill
    • He was an unhealthy child.
  • tending to corrupt
    • He liked unhealthy reading material.
  • characterized by disturbed mental health
    • He had an unhealthy interest in fire.

    Synonyms

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    Antonyms

    * healthy