unfavourableadjective
UK US unfavorable uk/ʌnˈfeɪ.vər.ə.bəl/us/ʌnˈfeɪ.vɚ.ə.bəl/C2 not giving you an advantage or a good chance of success:
Current conditions are very unfavourable for new businesses.
We have to be prepared for an unfavourable outcome.
C2 negative and showing that you do not like something:
He always talks about her in an unfavourable way.
Of those surveyed, 62 percent said they had an unfavourable opinion of the president.
The film has had unfavourable reviews.
Opposite
favourable
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- moon around
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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unfavourably
adverb uk/ʌnˈfeɪ.vər.ə.bli/us/ʌnˈfeɪ.vɚ.ə.bli/