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Synonyms for unfavorable
ʌnˈfeɪ vər ə bəlun·fa·vor·able
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
unfavorable
Synonyms:
adverse, antagonistic, forbidding, hostile, ill-disposed, inauspicious, repellent, unfriendly, unpropitiousAntonyms:
auspicious, benign, benignant, clement, favorable, friendly, gracious, kind, kindly, merciful, propitious
Princeton's WordNet
unfavorable, unfavourableadjective
not encouraging or approving or pleasing
"unfavorable conditions"; "an unfavorable comparison"; "unfavorable comments", "unfavorable impression"
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unfavourableAntonyms:
favourable, indulgent, approving, approbatory, approbative, favorable, good, plausive, affirmative, following(a)unfavorable, unfavourableadjective
(of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose
"unfavorable winds"
Synonyms:
unfavourableAntonyms:
indulgent, favourable, favorable, affirmative, following(a), approving, approbatory, approbative, plausive, goodunfavorable, unfavourableadjective
not favorable
"made an unfavorable impression"; "unfavorable reviews"
Synonyms:
unfavourableAntonyms:
favourable, affirmative, favorable, following(a), approbative, approving, indulgent, plausive, approbatory, good
Dictionary of English Synonymes
unfavorableadjective
Synonyms:
adverse, contrary, repugnant, injurious, malign, baneful, unpropitious, inauspicious, discouraging
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
unfavorableadjective
Synonyms:
adverse, inimical, unpropitious, inauspicious, malign, derogatory, hostile
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "unfavorable":
unfavourable, adverse, disadvantageous, negative, detrimental, untoward
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2605 | negative | |
#5680 | adverse | |
#12170 | hostile | |
#20371 | detrimental | |
#27323 | unfavorable | |
#28746 | repellent | |
#40140 | unfriendly | |
#42416 | forbidding | |
#49221 | antagonistic | |
#51861 | unfavourable | |
#79668 | untoward | |
#96594 | disadvantageous | |
#137695 | inauspicious |
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Weather conditions last month in Beijing were the worst over the past six years with slow wind, little rain and high temperatures, but average pollution readings were able to stay at same level as the past five years, the air pollution campaign has entered a stage of stalemate, as Chairman Mao described in his famous book 'On Protracted War'... The efforts we made have sometimes been offset by unfavorable weather, and it will take time for us to slip the leash of weather conditions to win the war.
Of course, all wars must end, the question is now how they end, and whether the terms on which they end are favorable or unfavorable to the security and interests of Michael McCaul.
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.
The lower tornado activity has largely been the result of an unfavorable pattern for tornadoes with occasional strong cold fronts shunting the deep, rich, high-quality moisture from the Gulf of Mexico south of Tornado Alley.
Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov are excluded from posters, Russian writers and their books are banned, the last time such a massive campaign to destroy unfavorable literature was carried out by the Nazis in Germany almost 90 years ago.
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