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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inadvisable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bad weather made the trip inadvisable at this time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another group felt that it was inadvisable to change horses in midstream.
▪ By now Christmas was fast approaching, and further travel would soon be inadvisable.
▪ Eleven years of trapping has demonstrated that it is inadvisable to generalise from two or three years' experience.
▪ However, it would be inadvisable for revolutionary socialists to base themselves on this unlikely variant.
▪ It was therefore inadvisable to conduct statistical tests when missing data from some schools distorted the representativeness of the sample.
▪ Strident, overbearing leadership is inadvisable in this political culture.
▪ Subsequent additions and amendments to software may be technically possible, but inadvisable because of subsequent upgrade issues.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inadvisable

Inadvisable \In`ad*vis"a*ble\, a. Not advisable. -- In`ad*vis"a*ble*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inadvisable

1819, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + advisable.

Wiktionary
inadvisable

a. unwise; not recommended; not prudent; not to be advised

WordNet
inadvisable
  1. adj. not prudent or wise; not recommended; "running on the ice is inadvisable" [syn: unadvisable] [ant: advisable]

  2. not advisable; "an unnecessary and inadvisable action"

Usage examples of "inadvisable".

Storms on the Mediterranean made a return to Rome inadvisable, work on the Sepulchre had become almost impossible, and when I developed a racking cough that worsened my usual winter breathing problems, Bishop Eusebius suggested that I move down to Jericho, where it was warmer, while he stayed to watch over the excavation.

Alverstoke was impelled to come to her rescue, drawing him apart, and explaining to him, with wonderful patience, why it would be both unnecessary and inadvisable to call in another doctor at this stage.

I fear that what your ward tells me will make it altogether inadvisable to apply for a divorce on any evidence that may lie in the past.

It was inadvisable to go outside the inner circle where there was no material necessity for so doing.

It was agreed that Fritsch should again remonstrate with the Fuehrer at their next appointment, pointing out to him the military considerations which made his plans inadvisable, while Neurath would follow up by again stressing to Hitler the political dangers.

Arkham - Akeley deeming it inadvisable to have me visit him at the scene of his nightmare studies.

He had therefore considered it inadvisable that the AustroHungarian Government should be approached by the German Government on the matter.

Because of these variations, it was considered inadvisable to compare the average costs of production of all hats of the domestic concerns with the average of all foreign hats.

At noon the canoes arrived, and we had the satisfaction once more to find ourselves all together, with a flattering prospect of being able to obtain as many horses shortly as would enable us to prosecute our voyage by land should that by water be deemed inadvisable.

In Chelsea's case, we controlled the hyper stimulation and successfully retrieved her eggs, but I told her donating again was medically inadvisable.

This necessitated an otherwise highly inadvisable course of action: a trip to the coffee stall further along the concourse.

However, his low intelligence quotient (moron), his extremely low general classification score, and his paranoid tendencies (delusions of grandeur) make it inadvisable to attempt to exploit his idiot-savant talent.

What evidence they had came from sources that could not be revealed in court, and it was deemed politically inadvisable to reveal security leaks in so sensitive a government activity.

I am making these directions so detailed because it is inadvisable to stop in Hillsdale to ask your way.

It is simply that boy is not a customary term of address for robots on Aurora and it would be inadvisable to create friction with the Aurorans by unintentionally stressing your place of origin through habits of speech that are nonessential.