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unfavored

adjective

unfavored is an adjective meaning “Not favoured” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-F-A-V-O-R-E-D, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does unfavored mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Not favoured.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of unfavored

  • more unfavored comparative
  • most unfavored superlative
  • unfavor'd
  • unfavour'd
  • unfavoured

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is unfavored?

Unfavored appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 unfavored come from?

From Middle English unfavored; equivalent to un- + favored.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).