Unfavorable
[ʌn'fevrəbl]
Definition
(adj.) (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose; 'unfavorable winds' .
(adj.) not encouraging or approving or pleasing; 'unfavorable conditions'; 'an unfavorable comparison'; 'unfavorable comments', 'unfavorable impression' .
(adj.) not favorable; 'made an unfavorable impression'; 'unfavorable reviews' .
Edited by Edith--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging.
Checker: Phyllis
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Adverse, contrary, repugnant, injurious, malign, baneful, unpropitious, inauspicious, discouraging.
Inputed by Kari
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FAITHFUL]
Typist: Susan
Examples
- He conjectured that in vaccinal immunity the virus is accompanied by a substance which makes the nervous tissue unfavorable for the development of the mic robe. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Conditions more unfavorable to an alert and concentrated response would be hard to devise. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Manly made one more heroic attempt under very unfavorable conditions at the close of a winter's day (December 8, 1903). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Under exceptionally unfavorable circumstances, such as hot pantries, a little of the dry acid should be sprinkled on the top of the vessel or preserve pot. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- His report to the shareholders in this proposed Royal North of Spain Railway was therefore unfavorable, and the idea was shortly after abandoned. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There were no possible means of obtaining news from the garrison, and information from outside could not be otherwise than unfavorable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He now perceived that under these circumstances favorable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavorable ones to be destroyed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Anxiety of any kind would be precisely the most unfavorable condition for him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Susan