Usually means: Not desirable or advantageous; negative.
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  1. unfavorable: Merriam-Webster
  2. unfavorable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unfavorable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unfavorable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unfavorable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unfavorable, unfavorable: Wordnik
  7. unfavorable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unfavorable: Wiktionary
  9. unfavorable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unfavorable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. unfavorable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. unfavorable: Dictionary.com
  13. unfavorable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. unfavorable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Unfavorable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. unfavorable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. unfavorable: Rhymezone
  18. unfavorable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. unfavorable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. unfavorable: FreeDictionary.org
  21. unfavorable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. unfavorable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unfavorable: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Unfavorable)

▸ adjective:  US standard spelling of unfavourable. [Serving to hinder or oppose; adverse, disadvantageous, inconducive, unsuitable.]

Similar:
unfavourable, untoward, hostile, bad, inauspicious, reproachful, discriminatory, reproving, invidious, adverse, more...

Opposite:
favorable, favorable outcome

Types:
bad, negative, unfortunate, undesirable, inauspicious, grim, disastrous, more...

Phrases:
unfavorable position, unfavorable variance, unfavorable judgment, unfavorable balance of trade, Unfavorable Semicircle, more...

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     olive,     mustard, more...
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Similar:
unfavourable, untoward, hostile, bad, inauspicious, reproachful, discriminatory, reproving, invidious, adverse, more...

Opposite:
favorable, favorable outcome

Types:
bad, negative, unfortunate, undesirable, inauspicious, grim, disastrous, more...

Phrases:
unfavorable position, unfavorable variance, unfavorable judgment, unfavorable balance of trade, Unfavorable Semicircle, express an unfavorable opinion, unfavorable result, unfavorable circumstances, more...

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     olive,     mustard, more...



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