disvantageousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsvænˈteɪd͡ʒəs/, /ˌdɪsvɑːnˈteɪd͡ʒəs/, /ˌdɪsvənˈteɪd͡ʒəs/

形容詞

disvantageous (comparative more disvantageous, superlative most disvantageous)

1. (obsolete) Disadvantageous.
   • 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 22 (1810 reprint)[1]:

     […] That had not his light horse by disvantageous ground / Been hinder'd […]

   • 1705, John Law, Money and Trade Considered (1996 reprint)[2]:

     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^[3], page 403:

     […] but that arrangement being found disvantageous to the trustees, it was broken off […]