disadvantageable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From disadvantage + -able.
Adjective
[edit]disadvantageable (comparative more disadvantageable, superlative most disadvantageable)
- (obsolete) injurious; disadvantageous.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Expence”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, pages 165–166:
- For haſty Selling is commonly as Diſaduantageable as Intereſt.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disadvantageable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)