Disadvantageous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISADVANTAGEOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• constituting a disadvantage
• involving or creating unfavourable circumstances that reduce the chances of success or effectiveness
• Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense.

Words that contain DISADVANTAGEOUS

disadvantageously26 disadvantageousness25 disadvantageousnesses27

How to use DISADVANTAGEOUS in a sentence

• It was an affair of great danger to fight with such large forces in a disadvantageous situation.
• There was no country placed under such disadvantageous circumstances, into which the shadow of improvement had ever been introduced.
• Yet this disadvantageous loan was of great service to an utterly impoverished government, about to contend with the large armies of the Turks.
• But he never lost sight of sex, or overlooked it in the casualties of a disadvantageous situation.
• The Roman League The position of Philip was very disadvantageous.
• He glanced at her pale face, her hair hanging dank and wet about it, and saw that, even under these disadvantageous conditions, she had grown more beautiful than before.
• The vices of this young man were, moreover, heightened by the disadvantageous light in which they appeared when opposed to the virtues of Master Blifil, his companion.
• Or, if the dignity of the subject shall seem inconsistent with jesting, in that case it is not disadvantageous to throw in something sad, or novel, or terrible.
• Any reverse in the fortunes of our master would be disadvantageous to us.
• I know not why conclusions so disadvantageous to him are formed in my mind, but so it is.
• So a knowledge of the sums meant to have been given for peace and ransom might have a disadvantageous influence on future proceedings for the same objects.
• As regards the splitting up of the fleet, no especially disadvantageous conditions are thereby produced.
• This is at once apparent if one considers the result to the State when war is forced on it under disadvantageous circumstances.
• But though Rome suffered in consequence of the war, its general result was undoubtedly disadvantageous to the Parthians.
• Already, in 1904, Russia, being in a difficult situation, was obliged to conclude a commercial treaty with Germany, very disadvantageous to herself.
• I never saw him, and while I was in Congress I formed rather a disadvantageous idea of him.
• Gerard, from whom he received disadvantageous impressions of us, which cannot be effaced.
• Even the sterility itself in this case is not disadvantageous, since the fertility of the true females has at the same time considerably increased.
• Then positive or negative selection sets in, favouring the variations which are advantageous, setting aside those which are disadvantageous.
• It must be confessed, that the princes and nobility, in those ages, went to war on very disadvantageous terms.
• It was under these disadvantageous circumstances that the battle of Talavera was fought.
• The Siberians rushed out sabre or lance in hand, and engaged in a hand-to-hand conflict which was disadvantageous for the warriors of Iermak, who were too inferior in numbers.
• But there is no occasion to be astonished at these peculiarities, nor to found upon them any disadvantageous opinion of the mental powers of their authors and believers.
• The latter, in the front ranks, supported the Roman cause by his courage and bravery, on disadvantageous ground.
• The Roman being drawn into disadvantageous ground by following the retreating enemy in disorder, became exposed to this sally.
• If the Emperor Alexander agreed to a peace which was disadvantageous to him, the campaign of 1812 would have ranked with those of Austerlitz, Friedland, and Wagram.
• Such a method was very disadvantageous to the lower parts of traffic, and was in general an impediment to the commerce of the state.
• And in the general result, and in all important matters, the comparison became more and more fatally disadvantageous to the English Church.
• It was first hung in a disadvantageous position, but the crowd discovered its merits and would have it noticed.
• It was therefore determined, be the event what it might, to attack the enemy in their present post, disadvantageous as it was.
• It is disadvantageous to take up money at Madeira upon bills, as they make payment in dollars, which they value at a milrea.
• The occasional frequenting of this circle may not be disadvantageous to the creative artist.
• I have made arrangements which will render my absence from the Front as little disadvantageous as may be possible.
• Surely light comedy was never seen under such disadvantageous conditions.
• I tell him that if that affair be passed over without notice, new attempts will be made, every one of them more and more dishonourable and disadvantageous to this country.

Similar words containing ADVANTAGEOU without suffix s and without prefix dis

advantageous17 advantageously22 advantageousnes20 advantageousness21 disadvantageously26 advantageousnesses23 disadvantageousness25 disadvantageousnesses27

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