disvantageous

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ vantage +‎ -ous

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌdɪsvænˈteɪd͡ʒəs/, /ˌdɪsvɑːnˈteɪd͡ʒəs/, /ˌdɪsvənˈteɪd͡ʒəs/

Adjective

disvantageous (comparative more disvantageous, superlative most disvantageous)

  1. (obsolete) Disadvantageous.
    • 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 22 (1810 reprint):
      […] That had not his light horse by disvantageous ground / Been hinder'd […]
    • 1705, John Law, Money and Trade Considered (1996 reprint):
      A People may consume more of their own or Forreign Goods, than the Value of the Product, Manufacture, and Profits by Trade; But their Trade is not disvantageous, it is their too great consumption […]
    • 1837, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales‎, page 403:
      […] but that arrangement being found disvantageous to the trustees, it was broken off […]

References
  • disvantageous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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