Word Meanings - DISADVANTAGEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had

Additional info about word: DISADVANTAGEOUS

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had been placed, he gave clear indications of future excellence. Prescott. -- Dis*ad`van*ta"geous*ly, adv. -- Dis*ad`van*ta"geous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISADVANTAGEOUS)

• Inexpedient
• Undesirable
• inadvisable
• disadvantageous

Related words: (words related to DISADVANTAGEOUS)

• INEXPEDIENT
  Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly
• INADVISABLE
  Not advisable. -- In`ad*vis"a*ble*ness, n.
• DISADVANTAGEOUS
  Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had