0 US spelling of unfavourable
2 not tending to help; not likely to lead to a positive result:
Unfavorable weather conditions this morning caused a postponement of the launch of the space shuttle.
The economic efficiency potential of using robots is defined by construction quantities, a high level of manual work, and hard and unfavorable working conditions.
Even women who manage to overcome infer tility and conceive a child are not exempt from terminology that has an unfavorable semantic prosody.
Condensation of molten material around the ablation site is unfavorable for producing fine and debris-free microstructures in materials processing.
The plasma pressed by the magnetic field to the internal electrode is unstable because of an unfavorable curvature of the magnetic field lines.
People can use their mutual knowledge of groupings in a system of precedent to predict a beneficial or unfavorable judicial response to contemplated behavior.
Eventually, the diploid organism produces thick-walled resting sporangia that can survive unfavorable conditions such as dry weather or freezing.
Such conditions were extremely unfavorable for the subsequent hoeing operations.
Presumably, it is easier, under unfavorable conditions, to detect movement and respond to it rather than to per form a flow-field analysis.
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