disadvantageously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a disadvantageous manner.
Example Sentences
- "they are rather noxious to the secretive organs of the urine which, during the latter part of the time, operate still more disadvantageously on the whole organism, because they cut up, violently, the tender capillation, so needful to the economy of the blood, partly by the quick process of putrefaction, in which they throw the body, before dying away;"
- "The Vicar himself seemed to wear rather a changed aspect, as most men do when acquaintances made elsewhere see them for the first time in their own homes; some indeed showing like an actor of genial parts disadvantageously cast for the curmudgeon in a new piece."
- "{{quote-book|en|1917|Mary MacLane |I, Mary MacLane |passage=The look of the neat letterhead and the fibrous feel of the bond paper give one the idea that whoever went into a business venture with him would come out of it disadvantageously."
Etymology
Etymology tree English disadvantageous Middle English -ly English -ly English disadvantageously From disadvantageous + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more disadvantageously (comparative)
most disadvantageously (superlative)