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ill-favoured

ill-favoured is the alternative form of ill-favored.

Meaning of ill-favored

Adjective

ill-favored (comparative more ill-favored, superlative most ill-favored)

  1. Unattractive or offensive to the eye; ugly.
    • And the ill fauoured and leane fleshed kine, did eate vp the seuen well fauoured and fat kine: So Pharaoh awoke.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 41:4
    Antonyms:
    well-favoured

Forms of ill-favoured

comparativemore ill-favoured
superlativemost ill-favoured

Words formed from ill-favoured

Questions about ill-favoured

What is ill-favoured the alternative form of?
Ill-favoured is the alternative form of ill-favored.

Words near ill-favoured in the dictionary

  1. ill-famed
  2. ill-fated
  3. ill-fatedly
  4. ill-fatedness
  5. ill-favored
  6. ill-favoured
  7. ill-favouredness
  8. ill-fed
  9. ill-fitting
  10. ill-formed
  11. ill-formedness

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