DISADVANTAGEOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disadvantageous mean? 

• DISADVANTAGEOUS (adjective)
  The adjective DISADVANTAGEOUS has 1 sense:

1. involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness

  Familiarity information: DISADVANTAGEOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISADVANTAGEOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness

Synonyms:

disadvantageous; unfavorable; unfavourable

Context example:

made an unfavorable impression

Similar:

minus; negative (involving disadvantage or harm)

Also:

inexpedient (not suitable or advisable)

harmful (causing or capable of causing harm)

inopportune (not opportune)

Antonym:

advantageous (giving an advantage)

Derivation:

disadvantage (the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position)

 Context examples 

When I had groped my way, blindly, through these difficulties, and had mastered the alphabet, which was an Egyptian Temple in itself, there then appeared a procession of new horrors, called arbitrary characters; the most despotic characters I have ever known; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb, meant expectation, and that a pen-and-ink sky-rocket, stood for disadvantageous.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)