disadvantageously

1. 1.

   in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage

   “the venture turned out badly for the investors”

   “angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them”

   Synonymsbadly

   Antonymsadvantageously

Questions about disadvantageously

What does disadvantageously mean?

disadvantageously means "in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage".

How many syllables are in disadvantageously?

disadvantageously has 7 syllables: di-sad-van-ta-ge-ou-sly. The stress falls on "ge".

What is another word for disadvantageously?

Close synonyms include badly. 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 disadvantageously?

The recorded antonyms are advantageously.

Is disadvantageously a common word?

disadvantageously 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.