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disadvantageable

disadvantageable adjective: injurious; disadvantageous.

Adjective

disadvantageable (comparative more disadvantageable, superlative most disadvantageable)

  1. (obsolete) injurious; disadvantageous.
    • For haſty Selling is commonly as Diſaduantageable as Intereſt.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Expence”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, pages 165–166

Forms of disadvantageable

comparativemore disadvantageable
superlativemost disadvantageable

Origin of disadvantageable

From disadvantage + -able.

Questions about disadvantageable

What does disadvantageable mean?
Disadvantageable means injurious; disadvantageous.
What part of speech is disadvantageable?
Disadvantageable is an adjective.

Words near disadvantageable in the dictionary

  1. disadvance
  2. disadvanced
  3. disadvances
  4. disadvancing
  5. disadvantage
  6. disadvantageable
  7. disadvantaged
  8. disadvantagedness
  9. disadvantageous
  10. disadvantageously
  11. disadvantageousness

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