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UNFAVORABLENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unfavorableness mean?
• UNFAVORABLENESS (noun)
The noun UNFAVORABLENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success
Familiarity information: UNFAVORABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
unfavorableness; unfavourableness
Hypernyms ("unfavorableness" is a kind of...):
disadvantage (the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unfavorableness"):
inauspiciousness; unpropitiousness (the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result)
Antonym:
favorableness (the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome)
Derivation:
unfavorable (involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness)
unfavorable ((of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose)
unfavorable (not encouraging or approving or pleasing)
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