unfavourably

1. 1.

   showing disapproval; in a disparaging way

   “he reviewed the play unfavorably”

   Synonymsunfavorably

Questions about unfavourably

What does unfavourably mean?

unfavourably means "showing disapproval; in a disparaging way".

How many syllables are in unfavourably?

unfavourably has 5 syllables: un-fa-vou-ra-bly. The stress falls on "vou".

What is another word for unfavourably?

Close synonyms include unfavorably. 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 unfavourably a common word?

unfavourably 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.