disadvantageous

Adjective

Meaning

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

unfavorable unfavourable negative expensive bad dangerous evil hostile harmful adverse damaging destructive inappropriate awkward detrimental
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Antonyms

advantageous good special better successful plus
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Phrases with the word

disadvantageous start disadvantageous position disadvantageous to be disadvantageous to be disadvantageous

Examples

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. Desiderius Erasmus

I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision. Eduard Shevardnadze

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live. Sol LeWitt

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live. Sol LeWitt

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. Mary Boykin Chesnut

A resourceful man knows to avoid a disadvantageous situation close at hand. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

disadvantaged minority disadvantaged population disadvantagedness disadvantageous position disadvantageous start disadvantageous to