unfavorably
adverb
unfavorably is an adverb meaning “In an unfavorable manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-F-A-V-O-R-A-B-L-Y and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does unfavorably mean?
adverb
- 1
USIn an unfavorable manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce unfavorably?
Unfavorably has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of unfavorably
- more unfavorably comparative
- most unfavorably superlative
- unfavourably
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is unfavorably?
Unfavorably appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does unfavorably come from?
From unfavorable + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).