disadvantageousdis‧ad‧van‧ta‧geous /ˌdɪsædvənˈteɪdʒəs, -væn-/ adjective [+to/for] formal - Animals also restrain their aggression because it is disadvantageous to fight stronger opponents - it is better to run away.
- Failing to reveal cystic fibrosis may be disadvantageous or even illegal.
- If it is vocationally disadvantageous to study history at school, it must be vocationally suicidal to study the subject at university.
- In them the gene might have been positively disadvantageous because it left them less socially intuitive.
- Money may be deposited on terms that make early withdrawal disadvantageous.
- The result was also disadvantageous for him personally.
nounadvantage ≠ disadvantagethe disadvantagedadjectiveadvantageous ≠ disadvantageousadvantaged ≠ disadvantagedverbdisadvantageadverbadvantageously ≠ disadvantageously