favourless

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

favorless

Etymology[edit]

favour +‎ -less

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪvə(ɹ)ləs/

Adjective[edit]

favourless (comparative more favourless, superlative most favourless)

(archaic) unfavoured; having no countenance or support
(archaic) unpropitious; unfavourable
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:
  Fortune favourless

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