disadvantageous

1. 1.

   involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness

   “a disadvantageous outcome”

   “a well-known study from the 1970's showed that gender stereotyping placed women in a disadvantageous position”

   “made an unfavorable impression”

   Synonymsunfavorableunfavourable

   Antonymsadvantageous

   Similarminus

Questions about disadvantageous

What does disadvantageous mean?

disadvantageous means "involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness".

How many syllables are in disadvantageous?

disadvantageous has 5 syllables: dis-ad-van-ta-geous. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌdɪˌsædˌvænˈteɪdʒəs/.

What is another word for disadvantageous?

Close synonyms include unfavorable, unfavourable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of disadvantageous?

The recorded antonyms are advantageous.

Is disadvantageous a common word?

disadvantageous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disadvantageous?

2 words rhyme with disadvantageous. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.