DISADVANTAGEOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disadvantageously mean? 

• DISADVANTAGEOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb DISADVANTAGEOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage

  Familiarity information: DISADVANTAGEOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISADVANTAGEOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage

Synonyms:

badly; disadvantageously

Context example:

angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them

Antonym:

advantageously (in a manner affording benefit or advantage)

Pertainym:

disadvantageous (involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness)

 Context examples 

Your garb and manner were restricted by rule; your air was often diffident, and altogether that of one refined by nature, but absolutely unused to society, and a good deal afraid of making herself disadvantageously conspicuous by some solecism or blunder; yet when addressed, you lifted a keen, a daring, and a glowing eye to your interlocutor's face: there was penetration and power in each glance you gave; when plied by close questions, you found ready and round answers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)