disvantageous

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/ˌdɪsvænˈteɪd͡ʒəs//ˌdɪsvɑːnˈteɪd͡ʒəs//ˌdɪsvənˈteɪd͡ʒəs/

adjective

Disadvantageous.

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Meanings

adjectivedisvantageous (comparative more disvantageous, superlative most disvantageous)

comparative more disvantageous · superlative most disvantageous

  1. obsoleteDisadvantageous.

    […] That had not his light horse by disvantageous ground / Been hinder'd […]

    1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 22 (1810 reprint)https://books.google.com/books?id=_hID3KBWGpYC&pg=PA346
    2 more examples

    A People may consume more of their own or Forreign Goods, than the Value of the Product, Manufacture, and Profits by Trade; But their Trade is not disvantageous, it is their too great consumption[…]

    1705, John Law, Money and Trade Considered, published 1996

    […]but that arrangement being found disvantageous to the trustees, it was broken off[…]

    1837, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, page 403

Origin

From dis- + vantage + -ous.

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APA

disvantageous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disvantageous

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“disvantageous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disvantageous. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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