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Unflinching vs Unfavorable - What's the difference?

unflinching | unfavorable |

As adjectives the difference between unflinching and unfavorable

is that unflinching is without flinching; staying committed despite any difficulty; steadfast while unfavorable is disadvantageous, adverse, unsuitable, inconducive; serving to hinder or oppose.

unflinching

English

Adjective

(-)
  • without flinching; staying committed despite any difficulty; steadfast
  • *1837 , , An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism , page 126
  • *:Can an honest, upright and Christian man, go into these conflicts, and with unflinching firmness stand up for all that is good, and oppose all that is evil, in whatever party it may be found, without a measure of moral courage such as few can command?

    • Derived terms

    * unflinchingly * unflinchingness

    unfavorable

    English

    Alternative forms

    * unfavourable

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Disadvantageous, adverse, unsuitable, inconducive; serving to hinder or oppose.
  • * 1863 , , Excursions , ch. 6:
    • 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.
  • Not favorable, disapproving.
  • * 1860 , , The Mill on the Floss , ch. 11:
    • [Y]et the thing she most dreaded was to offend the gypsies, by betraying her extremely unfavorable opinion of them.
  • (of wind or weather) Causing obstacles or delay; not conducive to travel or work; inclement.
  • * 1855 , , Israel Potter , ch. 17:
    • The wind was right under the land, the tide unfavorable.
  • Not auspicious; ill-boding.
  • * 1903 , , The Filigree Ball , ch. 6:
    • The fact that the bride went through the ceremony without her bridal bouquet is looked upon by many as an unfavorable omen.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "unfavorable" is often applied: condition, circumstance, weather, climate, outcome, result, opinion, view, impression, effect, consequence, impact, influence, environment, balance, information, report, prognosis, rating, evaluation, review, position, factor, feature, aspect, reaction, response, attitude, season, development, treatment, ruling, case, state, experience, inference.

    Antonyms

    * favorable

    Related terms

    * unfavorably