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English
Etymology
From dis- + vantage + -ous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌdɪsvænˈteɪd͡ʒəs/, /ˌdɪsvɑːnˈteɪd͡ʒəs/, /ˌdɪsvənˈteɪd͡ʒəs/
Adjective
disvantageous (comparative more disvantageous, superlative most disvantageous)
- (obsolete) Disadvantageous.
- 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 22 (1810 reprint):
- That had not his light horse by disvantageous ground / Been hinder'd
1705, John Law, Money and Trade Considered, published 1996:A People may consume more of their own or Forreign Goods, than the Value of the Product, Manufacture, and Profits by Trade; But their Trade is not disvantageous, it is their too great consumption […]
1837, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, page 403:[…] but that arrangement being found disvantageous to the trustees, it was broken off […]
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