Meanings
alternative un-favor · alternative UK unfavour
- nonstandardrareuncountableAbsence or lack of favor.
Having no stand to show favour at one time and unfavour at another time.
2000, B. R. Kumawat, Teachers' English Language and Teaching2 more examples
He emerged out from the rear of the temple and into the courtyard of the Four Kings where he was met with un-favor and disciplined silence...the silence of over five hundred warriors.
2014, Alton One Jenkins, The Midas King Chronicles, volume 1On all these men, on their favour or unfavour depended my future fate, and I was received in the most kind of gentle manner.
2019, Lothar Schilling, Jakob Vogel, Transnational Cultures of Expertise, page 57Synonyms: disfavour
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAbsence or lack of favor.
Origin
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unfavor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfavor
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