UNFAVOURABLE Synonyms

• not auspicious; boding ill

• contrary to your interests or welfare

• presaging ill fortune

• involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness

• contrary to your interests or welfare

• in an opposing direction

• having undesirable or negative qualities

• feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

• that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency

• with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')

• very much; strongly

• serious or severe

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition

• not capable of being collected

• below average in quality or performance

• nonstandard

• not financially safe or secure

• physically unsound or diseased

• capable of harming

• characterized by wickedness or immorality

• reproduced fraudulently

• not working properly

• marked by or promising bad fortune

• 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 propitious

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

• contrary to your interests or welfare

• 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

• 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