unadvisable

1. 1.

   not prudent or wise; not recommended

   “running on the ice is inadvisable”

   Synonymsinadvisable

Questions about unadvisable

What does unadvisable mean?

unadvisable means "not prudent or wise; not recommended".

How many syllables are in unadvisable?

unadvisable has 5 syllables: u-nad-vi-sa-ble. The stress falls on "vi".

What is another word for unadvisable?

Close synonyms include inadvisable. 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.

Is unadvisable a common word?

unadvisable 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.