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favorless

favorless is the alternative form of favourless.

Meaning of favourless

Adjective

favourless (comparative more favourless, superlative most favourless)

  1. (archaic) unfavoured; having no countenance or support
  2. (archaic) unpropitious; unfavourable
    • Fortune favourless1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7

Forms of favorless

comparativemore favorless
superlativemost favorless

Questions about favorless

What is favorless the alternative form of?
Favorless is the alternative form of favourless.

Words near favorless in the dictionary

  1. favoritizing
  2. favorize
  3. favorized
  4. favorizes
  5. favorizing
  6. favorless
  7. favorous
  8. favors
  9. Favorses
  10. favorsome
  11. favos

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