Unfavorable vs Deplorable - What's the difference?
unfavorable | deplorable | Related terms |
Disadvantageous, adverse, unsuitable, inconducive; serving to hinder or oppose.
* 1863 , , Excursions , ch. 6:
Not favorable, disapproving.
* 1860 , , The Mill on the Floss , ch. 11:
(of wind or weather) Causing obstacles or delay; not conducive to travel or work; inclement.
* 1855 , , Israel Potter , ch. 17:
Not auspicious; ill-boding.
* 1903 , , The Filigree Ball , ch. 6:
Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.
(senseid)To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable , fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
Unfavorable is a related term of deplorable.
As adjectives the difference between unfavorable and deplorable
is that unfavorable is disadvantageous, adverse, unsuitable, inconducive; serving to hinder or oppose while deplorable is lamentable, regrettable.unfavorable
English
Alternative forms
* unfavourableAdjective
(en adjective)- The shade of a dense pine wood, is more unfavorable to the springing up of pines of the same species than of oaks within it.
- [Y]et the thing she most dreaded was to offend the gypsies, by betraying her extremely unfavorable opinion of them.
- The wind was right under the land, the tide unfavorable.
- The fact that the bride went through the ceremony without her bridal bouquet is looked upon by many as an unfavorable omen.