disadvantageous

[ dis-ad-vuhn-tey-juhs, dis-ad- ]

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adjective

characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.

Origin of disadvantageous

First recorded in 1595–1605; dis-¹ + advantageous

Other words from disadvantageous

dis·ad·van·ta·geous·ly, adverb
dis·ad·van·ta·geous·ness, noun
qua·si-dis·ad·van·ta·geous, adjective
qua·si-dis·ad·van·ta·geous·ly, adverb

Words Nearby disadvantageous

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How to use disadvantageous in a sentence

Kyiv was forced to accept a deeply disadvantageous ten-year gas transit deal with Moscow, among other concessions.
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So a plausible working hypothesis is that centenarians carry rare, beneficial genetic variations rather than a lack of disadvantageous ones.
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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.
The inescapable overlap of pandemic and politics | Philip Bump | September 10, 2021 | Washington Post
They thought it would involve the president personally in a way that would be politically disadvantageous.
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Kimura posited that most of the variation between organisms is neither advantageous nor disadvantageous.
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As Justice Kennedy noted, “this creates a disadvantageous position for some employees.”
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The suit should not be so full of possible tenaces as to make it disadvantageous to open it.
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Castalia lacked the Ancram gift of embellishing disadvantageous circumstances.
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Constructional requirements determined as the only available position for this rudder a rather disadvantageous one.
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Most of his English counsellors dissuaded him from accepting conditions so disadvantageous and dishonorable.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. | David Hume
Egerton advised him that the demise was disadvantageous, but that it might be hard to terminate it without Browne's concurrence.
Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing

British Dictionary definitions for disadvantageous

disadvantageous

/ (dɪsˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs, ˌdɪsæd-) /

adjective

unfavourable; detrimental

Derived forms of disadvantageous

disadvantageously, adverb
disadvantageousness, noun

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