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UNFAVOURABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfavourableness mean? 

UNFAVOURABLENESS (noun)
  The noun UNFAVOURABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of not being encouraging or indicative of successplay

  Familiarity information: UNFAVOURABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNFAVOURABLENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

unfavorableness; unfavourableness

Hypernyms ("unfavourableness" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unfavourableness"):

inauspiciousness; unpropitiousness (the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result)

Antonym:

favourableness (the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome)

Derivation:

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

unfavourable ((of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose)

unfavourable (not encouraging or approving or pleasing)


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