Definition for Disadvantageous:

• Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense.

Synonyms for Disadvantageous:

• adj.

  •adverse (adjective)
  • unpropitious,
  • most opposite,
  • allergic to,
  • down on,
  • down side,
  • have no use for.
  •all (adjective)
  • disadvantageous,
  • unfavourable.
  •damaging (adjective)
  • ruinous,
  • nocent.
  •detrimental, inconvenient (adjective)
  • downside,
  • ill-timed,
  • contrary,
  • on the debit side,
  • debit-side,
  • dyslogistic,
  • derogatory,
  • objectionable.
  •discouraging (adjective)
  • most depressive,
  • more dismaying,
  • dis-maying,
  • most off-putting,
  • dis-appointing,
  • more dissuading,
  • re pressing,
  • more hindering,
  • dis heartening,
  • more repressing,
  • most dismaying,
  • de-pressing,
  • re-pressing,
  • most daunting,
  • off putting,
  • most dampening,
  • most off putting,
  • more dampening,
  • most dissuading,
  • more off putting,
  • dis appointing,
  • most disheartening,
  • more depressive,
  • de pressing,
  • most repressing,
  • more disheartening,
  • most hindering,
  • more off-putting,
  • dis maying,
  • more daunting,
  • more offputting,
  • offputting,
  • dis-heartening,
  • most offputting.
  •harmful (adjective)
  • risky,
  • Harassing,
  • murderous.
  •hurtful (adjective)
  • most wounding,
  • un kindest,
  • more wounding,
  • un-kind,
  • most hurting,
  • un-kinder,
  • un-kindest,
  • up setting,
  • up-setting,
  • un kinder,
  • more hurting,
  • un kind.
  •pejorative (adjective)
  • irreverent,
  • Detractory.
  •prejudicial (adjective)
  • dis-criminatory,
  • pre judicial,
  • counter productive,
  • more differential,
  • most counterproductive,
  • more counterproductive,
  • pre-judicial,
  • most differential,
  • dis criminatory.
  •unadvantageous (adjective)
  • un-advantageous,
  • un advantageous,
  • un satisfactory,
  • un-satisfactory.
  •unfavorable (adjective)
  • in-felicitous,
  • un favorable,
  • un-seemliest,
  • un suited,
  • in felicitous,
  • un-suited,
  • in advisable,
  • un seemliest,
  • un seemly,
  • in-advisable,
  • un promising,
  • most unpromising,
  • un-favorable,
  • more unpromising,
  • un-seemlier,
  • un-promising,
  • un-fit,
  • illadvised,
  • un seemlier.
  •unusable (adjective)
  • un usable,
  • un-usable.
  •useless (adjective)
  • inutile,
  • scrapper,
  • unfunctional,
  • unusuable,
  • non-functional,
  • unusable,
  • profitless,
  • of no use,
  • no good,
  • nonfunctional,
  • Unpurposed.

• n.

  •
  • hopeless,
  • shaky,
  • faltering,
  • not have a hope in hell,
  • on the rocks,
  • precarious,
  • help,
  • untoward.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • inauspicious,
  • uncompetitive,
  • harebrained,
  • quixotic,
  • unworkable,
  • ill-starred,
  • ill-fated.
  •
  • screwed up,
  • untenable,
  • noncompetitive,
  • overambitious.
  •
  • dying.

Paraphrases for Disadvantageous:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    unfavorable, unfavourable, harmful.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    unfavourable.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    disadvantage.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    deleterious, injurious, counterproductive, inauspicious, favourable, dire, less-favoured, underprivileged, pernicious, disruptive, unhelpful, inhospitable, conducive, disastrous, impoverished, inclement, untoward.
  • Verb, past participle
    opposed.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    negative, detrimental, disadvantaged, adverse, prejudicial, inimical, damaging, undesirable, bad, unfortunate, hostile, unfair, counter-productive, vulnerable.

Antonyms for Disadvantageous:

• adj.

  • all
    advantageous.
  • detrimental, inconvenient
    favorable, Aiding, complimentary, helpful, nice, good, Assisting, well-timed, convenient.
  • Other antonyms:
    cordial, affable, amicable, inoffensive, harmless, nonfatal, discriminatory, well-disposed, complying, benign, sympathetic, nondestructive, agreeable, tolerant, supportive, propitious, unresistant, amiable, useful, innocent, hospitable, understanding, nonlethal, congenial, innocuous.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    affirmative, affirmatory, confirming, neutral.

Disadvantageous Sentence Examples:

• When the British were first made out, Arnold's second in command, Waterbury, urged that in view of the enemy's superiority the flotilla should get under way at once, and fight them " on a retreat in the main lake;" the harbour being disadvantageous " to fight a number so much superior, and the enemy being able to surround us on every side, we lying between an island and the main."

• I can well imagine how many disadvantageous things people will tell thee at my expense.

Homophones for Disadvantageous:

• disadvantage.