hard-favoured

adjective

Having hard or stern features; unattractive.

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Meanings

adjectivehard-favoured (comparative more hard-favoured, superlative most hard-favoured)

comparative more hard-favoured · superlative most hard-favoured · alternative hard-favored

  1. Having hard or stern features; unattractive.

    Vulcan […] was so hard-favoured, that both his parents frowned on him, and Jupiter threw him out of heaven.

    1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 4”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
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APA

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

Chicago

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