0 causing problems, especially causing something or someone to be less successful than other things or people: --
If a disadvantageous permitted action is required, subjects do not have to perform it and, consequently, their losses can be reduced.
In each contrast, the stronger modal verb was associated once with the advantageous condition and once with the disadvantageous condition.
Each modal form was used once in association with the advantageous condition and once with the disadvantageous condition.
In these cases, the same trait is both disadvantageous and equalizing or advantageous.
While being small was disadvantageous, having a good organization meant that small groups could still set private guild rules to protect themselves.
It is disadvantageous for the word merger with no conventionalized character to preserve in the evolution of language.
Accessible judicial channels are needed to facilitate citizen challenges to administrative decisions that are disadvantageous to the diffuse public.
The formation of circular molecules is disadvantageous to prebiotic replication because the two strands are intertwined and dissociation on dilution is prevented.
