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disadvantageously

disadvantageously adverb: in a disadvantageous manner.

Adverb

disadvantageously (comparative more disadvantageously, superlative most disadvantageously)

  1. In a disadvantageous manner.
    • 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...1859, Carl Baunscheidt, Baunscheidtismus, page 45
    • 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.1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to...

Antonyms of disadvantageously

Forms of disadvantageously

comparativemore disadvantageously
superlativemost disadvantageously

Origin of disadvantageously

From disadvantageous + -ly.

Questions about disadvantageously

What does disadvantageously mean?
Disadvantageously means in a disadvantageous manner.
What part of speech is disadvantageously?
Disadvantageously is an adverb.

Words near disadvantageously in the dictionary

  1. disadvantage
  2. disadvantageable
  3. disadvantaged
  4. disadvantagedness
  5. disadvantageous
  6. disadvantageously
  7. disadvantageousness
  8. disadvantages
  9. disadvantageth
  10. disadvantaging
  11. disadvauntage

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