favourless

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/ˈfeɪvə(ɹ)ləs/

adjective

unfavoured; having no countenance or support

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Meanings

adjectivefavourless (comparative more favourless, superlative most favourless)

comparative more favourless · superlative most favourless · alternative favorless

  1. archaicunfavoured; having no countenance or support
  2. archaicunpropitious; unfavourable

    Fortune favourless

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7

Origin

From favour + -less.

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favourless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/favourless

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“favourless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/favourless. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “favourless,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/favourless.

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