UNFAVORABLE Synonyms

• not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune

• not auspicious; boding ill

• a person who suffers misfortune

• unsuitable or regrettable

• involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness

• contrary to your interests or welfare

• in an opposing direction

• characterized by enmity or ill will

• not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally

• troops belonging to the enemy's military forces

• impossible to bring into friendly accord

• very unfavorable to life or growth

• unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)

• characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features

• expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

• not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition

• reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

• a reply of denial

• a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed

• having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant

• less than zero

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• having a negative charge

• involving disadvantage or harm

• vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

• not wanted

• one whose presence is undesirable

• not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse)

• not propitious

• not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society

• contrary to your interests or welfare

• not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with pleasure

• not welcome

• not encouraging or approving or pleasing

• (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose

• involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness

• encouraging or approving or pleasing

• (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate

• giving an advantage

• presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome