Synonyms of disadvantageous

disadvantageous

adjective

(ˌ)dis-ˌad-ˌvan-ˈtā-jəs 

as in unfavorable

opposed to one's interests

such an arrangement with the wholesalers would be disadvantageous for small farmers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• unfavorable
• adverse
• negative
• hostile
• detrimental
• harmful
• damaging
• destructive
• prejudicial
• bad
• threatening
• unfriendly
• inimical
• dangerous
• risky
• hazardous
• counter
• unsympathetic
• untoward
• troublesome
• injurious
• deleterious
• conflicting
• unsafe
• offensive
• poisonous
• lethal
• opposing
• fatal
• ruinous
• pernicious
• baneful
• evil
• perilous
• unhealthy
• hurtful
• malignant
• noxious
• ill
• resistant
• antagonistic
• murderous
• uncongenial
• baleful
• inhospitable
• uncooperative
• resisting
• slanderous
• parlous
• detractive
• intolerant
• defamatory
• jeopardizing
• scathing
• wounding
• imperiling
• antipathetic
• competing
• calumnious
• counteracting
• countering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• advantageous
• favorable
• positive
• beneficial
• useful
• sympathetic
• friendly
• good
• supportive
• helpful
• propitious
• harmless
• innocuous
• innocent
• nondestructive
• inoffensive
• well-disposed
• nonthreatening
• nonfatal
• tolerant
• agreeable
• nonlethal
• benign
• friendly
• congenial
• understanding
• amiable
• complying
• hospitable
• amicable
• cordial
• unresistant
• affable
• benignant

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of disadvantageous

Perhaps, researchers have speculated, genes on the X chromosome don’t transfer well between species, or Neanderthal genetic variants on the X chromosome were disadvantageous in some way to human variants and were therefore gradually eliminated by the evolutionary process of natural selection. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026

Newsom has long opposed state-level wealth taxes, believing such levies would be disadvantageous for the world’s fourth-largest economy. — Michael R. Blood, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2026

The arbitrator likely would have the power to compel UCLA to remain at the Rose Bowl, Korobkin said, meaning the Rose Bowl would not be put in a disadvantageous position should the case be moved out of court. — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026

The Earth’s climate is now much warmer and wetter than the climate of the Pleistocene epoch, which would probably make the thick fur and fat layers of the woolly mammoth disadvantageous adaptations. — JSTOR Daily, 13 Nov. 2025