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Unfavorable
Answer for the clue "Unfavorable ", 15 letters:
disadvantageous
Word definitions for disadvantageous in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600; see disadvantage (n.) + -ous . Related: Disadvantageously .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Animals also restrain their aggression because it is disadvantageous to fight stronger opponents - it is better to run away. ▪ Failing to reveal cystic fibrosis may be disadvantageous or even illegal. ▪ If it is vocationally ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not advantageous.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disadvantageous \Dis*ad`van*ta"geous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]savantageux.] Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous ; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. constituting a disadvantage [syn: harmful ] [ant: advantageous ]
Usage examples of disadvantageous.
This adapid generally stuck to the deeper forest where its slowness was not as disadvantageous as it would be on more open ground.
Bernis, telling me to do the best I could, and to be assured that the ambassador would be instructed to consent to whatever bargain might be made, provided the rate was not more disadvantageous than that of the exchange at Paris.
The suit should not be so full of possible tenaces as to make it disadvantageous to open it.
He affected the appearances of a civil war, led his forces into the field, against Aurelian, posted them in the most disadvantageous manner, betrayed his own counsels to his enemy, and with a few chosen friends deserted in the beginning of the action.
The solution of this problem of nutrition, like the solution of the housing problem, must be sought by retaining the advantageous food customs which we now find about us and substituting scientific customs for the disadvantageous ones.
Bernis, telling me to do the best I could, and to be assured that the ambassador would be instructed to consent to whatever bargain might be made, provided the rate was not more disadvantageous than that of the exchange at Paris.
But upon his illness, and the disadvantageous circumstances in which the Crusaders were placed, the national disunion between the various bands united in the Crusade, began to display itself, just as old wounds break out afresh in the human body when under the influence of disease or debility.
Until it would agree to do this the Rebels would not agree to exchange, and the only motive--save revenge--which could have inspired the Rebel maltreatment of the prisoners, was the expectation of raising such a clamor in the North as would force the Government to consent to a disadvantageous exchange, and to give back to the Confederacy, at its most critical period one hundred thousand fresh, able-bodied soldiers.
Even Etaine, the worst killing field I have ever known, was not as disadvantageous as the ground I cross now.