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Definition of Disadvantageous

1. Adjective. Constituting a disadvantage.

Definition of Disadvantageous

1. a. 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.

Definition of Disadvantageous

1. Adjective. Not advantageous. ¹

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Definition of Disadvantageous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disadvantageous

Literary usage of Disadvantageous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1880)
"... from those particular countries with which the balance of trade is supposed to be disadvantageous, is the second expedient by which the commercial ..."

2. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to by Sir Norman Angell (1911)
"Force that aids co-operation in accord with law of man's advance; force that is exercised for parasitism in conflict with such law and disadvantageous for ..."

3. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National by Norman Angell (1913)
"Force that aids co-operation in accord with law of man's advance: force that is exercised for parasitism in conflict with such law and disadvantageous for ..."

4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"Beyond this definition there can be no crime, and it is impossible to draw the refusal of a body of men to labor under terms disadvantageous to themselves, ..."

5. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1884)
"Altogether, I think that this mode of election is disadvantageous to the House, and I am certain that it is disadvantageous to the Parliament as a whole; ..."

6. Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford Lectures by James Hutchison Stirling (1890)
"... but, absolutely, of new species—His lever to this, change by natural accident and chance: such necessarily proving cither advantageous, disadvantageous, ..."

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