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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unfavourable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a difficult/unfavourable climate
▪ The economic situation created an unfavourable climate for investment.
a favourable/unfavourable comparison (=in which one thing or person is judged to be better/worse than another)
▪ My family was always making unfavourable comparisons between me and my older brother.
a favourable/unfavourable outcome
▪ Considerable progress has been made towards a favourable outcome.
▪ Discontinuing treatment too early may result in an unfavourable outcome.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
impression
▪ Within seconds visual behaviours are sending signals which create a favourable or an unfavourable impression.
publicity
▪ For example, the modifications could be carried out badly, resulting in unfavourable publicity for the software company.
▪ Following widespread unfavourable publicity, Grand Lodge decided to redefine its rules on public relations in 1984.
▪ The political activities of members of Özal's family, especially of his wife Semra Özal, had also received unfavourable publicity.
▪ A great deal of fervent and unfavourable publicity was heaped upon the papacy as a result of this issue.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Despite an unfavourable business environment, the stock market remained steady.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A less liquid market could have unfavourable effects on the cost of raising capital.
▪ And planning certainly proved incapable of maintaining accumulation once conditions became unfavourable.
▪ For the Republicans, it was a defensive struggle for democracy, against increasingly unfavourable odds.
▪ He was now encumbered with a record that the voters generally regarded in an unfavourable light.
▪ The second interpretation is that the economic outcomes, unfavourable as well as favourable, have been a consequence of the government's policies.
▪ Very often this is combined with an option to take money instead should bill rates be unfavourable.
Wiktionary
unfavourable

a. 1 not approved of 2 (context of wind or weather English) opposing or hindering

WordNet
unfavourable

  1. adj. not encouraging or approving or pleasing; "unfavorable conditions"; "an unfavorable comparison"; "unfavorable comments" [syn: unfavorable] [ant: favorable]

  2. (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose; "unfavorable winds" [syn: unfavorable] [ant: favorable]

Usage examples of "unfavourable".

Robertson, though the authoress has evidently got her idea of his character through an unfavourable medium, and does not understand the full value of one of the most admirable characters I ever knew or expect to know.

The orders were sent out to the groups, but the raid was cancelled, presumably because the weather conditions became unfavourable.

The brutish, broken face which moved into the light was well known to be Dan Figgins, ex-heavyweight boxing champion of Glasgow and London, now a bookmaker with a reputation for very rough and unfavourable handling should his clients fail to settle on time.

I concealed my surprise, lest she should think I had formed an unfavourable impression of her.

Although my niece had no rights over me, I valued her esteem, and thought it best to tell her the whole story lest she should pass an unfavourable judgment on me.

I begged him to excuse the liberty I had taken, and to let me know his answer without fail, so that I might have time to get another partner if it were unfavourable to me.

Every hybridizer knows how unfavourable exposure to wet is to the fertilisation of a flower, yet what a multitude of flowers have their anthers and stigmas fully exposed to the weather!

It is particularly important to refrain from making unfavourable remarks or statements concerning the friends and the loved ones of God, inasmuch as any expression of grievance, of complaint or backbiting is incompatible with the requirements of unity and harmony and would dampen the spirit of love, fellowship and nobility.

Fathom still remained insensible, and the doctor pronounced a very unfavourable prognostic, while he ordered a pair of additional vesicatories to be laid upon his arms, and other proper medicines to be administered.

If a Will unfavourable to Cedric had been made public, that bottle would have been replaced and the other kept for a more propitious occasion.

There was plenty of land unappropriated in the colony, but very much of it was bad land and in unfavourable situations.

She was, Marion saw, looking at her again under faintly contracted brows, and she realised that because she wept about the child at Coltsfoot her eyes were small and red, and that had added to her face a last touch of ruin which made it an unfavourable place for the struggles of an unspontaneous expression of amiability.

It is particularly important to refrain from making unfavourable remarks or statements concerning the friends and the loved ones of God, inasmuch as any expression of grievance, of complaint or backbiting is incompatible with the requirements of unity and harmony and would dampen the spirit of love, fellowship and nobility.

This he considered was no unfavourable circumstance, as Enrico and himself might easily gain admission into their order, should their enterprize not be conducted with the facility they desired: whilst Laurette might remain resident in the convent till Madame Chamont had obtained permission to leave it, and could do it without a breach of propriety.

But before it was built the people used to attend the High Street Chapel, Huddersfield, which involved a walk of over two miles each way, and this in unfavourable weather was no light task.