Disadvantageous synonyms

dĭs-ăd'vən-tā'jəs, dĭs'ăd-vən-

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deleterious
Having a harmful effect; injurious:
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detrimental
Causing damage or harm; injurious.
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harmful
Of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious
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hurtful
Damaging or harmful:
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inconvenient
Inopportune:
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inexpedient
Not expedient; inadvisable:
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prejudicial
Causing or tending to cause harm, especially to a legal case:
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slighting
In the manner of a slight; belittling, deprecative
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unfavorable
Likely to be a hindrance; disadvantageous:
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wrong
Contrary to conscience, morality, or law:
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advantageous (antonym)
Affording advantage; favorable or beneficial.
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helpful (antonym)
The definition of helpful is someone or something that is useful, that provides assistance or aid, or that is prone to providing aid.
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convenient (antonym)
(Obs.) Appropriate; suitable
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well-timed (antonym)
Occurring or done at an opportune time:
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adverse
(Not comparable) Opposite; confronting.
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negative
(Biology) Moving or turning away from a stimulus, such as light:
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untoward
Unfavorable or adverse:
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help (related)
Tending to discourage, retard, or make more difficult
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inequitable (related)
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counterproductive (related)
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Disadvantageous Sentence Examples

  • In the endless-rope systems cars run singly or in short trains, curves are disadvantageous, unless of long radius, speed is relatively slow, and branch roads not so easily operated as with tail-rope.

  • In his belief that he could ensnare the courts of London and St Petersburg into separate and proportionately disadvantageous treaties, he overreached himself.

  • (For details see Hughes, Text-book of Coal Mining, pp. 236-272; Hildenbrand, Underground Haulage by Wire Rope.) Rope haulage is widely used in collieries, and sometimes in other mines having large lateral extent and heavy traffic. With the tail-rope system, cars are run in long trains at high speed, curves and branches are easily worked, and gradients may be steep, though undulating gradients are somewhat disadvantageous.

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