from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Detrimental; unfavorable.
from The Century Dictionary.
Attended with disadvantage; not adapted to promote interest, reputation, or other good; unfavorable; detrimental.
Biased; unfriendly; prejudicial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous.
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adjective Not advantageous.
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adjective constituting a disadvantage
Etymologies
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disadvantage + -ous
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Examples
Genov's resignation on August 24 2009 was telegraphed some days ago after a fallout with Energy Minister Traicho Traikov about Traikov's allegation that Kozloduy had sold power on the open market on terms disadvantageous to the nuclear power station.
Even where distinct vision would be 'disadvantageous' he half doubts if fusion comes to the rescue, or if even the color-wheel ever produces complete fusion.
And if there is, I suppose you are ready to grant marital rights to a man with his dog, and a man with 10 wives – disadvantageous as that is for the dog and the wives.
Any advantageous evolutionary change would have to exceed functional neutrality (zero) to the same extent that the wasteful disadvantageous junk exceeded zero in the opposite direction would it not?
Better to stress that this is only one isolated incident, being played up specifically since it is such a disadvantageous story for the pro-immigration side.
Better to stress that this is only one isolated incident, being played up specifically since it is such a disadvantageous story for the pro-immigration side.
Telofy commented on the word disadvantageous
/dɪsædvənˈteɪdʒəs/
Are there native speakers who pronounce this /dɪsəd'væntədʒəs/?
(That’d be some consolation...)
October 23, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word disadvantageous
Another case of adjacent gauge? :)
October 23, 2009
Telofy commented on the word disadvantageous
Definitely!
And you might enjoy reading The Chaos for inspiration.
October 24, 2009