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disadvantageous
[ dis-ad-vuhn-tey-juhs, dis-ad- ]
disadvantageous
/ ˌdɪsæd-; dɪsˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs /
adjective
- unfavourable; detrimental
Derived Forms
- disˌadvanˈtageousness, noun
- disˌadvanˈtageously, adverb
Other Words From
- dis·advan·tageous·ly adverb
- dis·advan·tageous·ness noun
- quasi-dis·advan·tageous adjective
- quasi-dis·advan·tageous·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of disadvantageous1
Example Sentences
Kyiv was forced to accept a deeply disadvantageous ten-year gas transit deal with Moscow, among other concessions.
So a plausible working hypothesis is that centenarians carry rare, beneficial genetic variations rather than a lack of disadvantageous ones.
That party is now intertwined with the extent to which America is willing to tamp down on a deadly virus is, to put it mildly, disadvantageous.
They thought it would involve the president personally in a way that would be politically disadvantageous.
Kimura posited that most of the variation between organisms is neither advantageous nor disadvantageous.
As Justice Kennedy noted, “this creates a disadvantageous position for some employees.”
The suit should not be so full of possible tenaces as to make it disadvantageous to open it.
Castalia lacked the Ancram gift of embellishing disadvantageous circumstances.
Constructional requirements determined as the only available position for this rudder a rather disadvantageous one.
Most of his English counsellors dissuaded him from accepting conditions so disadvantageous and dishonorable.
Egerton advised him that the demise was disadvantageous, but that it might be hard to terminate it without Browne's concurrence.
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