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Definition: Unadvisable |
UnadvisableAdjective1. Not prudent or wise; not recommended; "running on the ice is inadvisable". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unadvisable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonym: UnadvisableSynonym: inadvisable (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: advisable (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpedience | Unadvisable; (inexpedient); unprofitable; (useless); incompetent; (unskillful); irremediable; (hopeless). |
Adjective: inexpedient, undesirable; unadvisable, inadvisable; objectionable; inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient; incommodious, discommodious; disadvantageous; inappropriate, unfit; (inconsonant). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | It is also unadvisable for U.S. manufacturers to change their local partner too frequently or whenever sales drop, and without having invested sufficient effort into providing technical assistance to the local partner, as this will make for a poor image and reputation for the U.S. firm themselves. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unadvisable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unadvisable" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unadvisable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unratsam (ill-advised, inadvisable, inexpedient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασύμφοροσ (impolitic, inexpedient, uneconomic, unprofitable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | advisableunay нерекомендуемый (inadvisable). (various references) no aconsejable (inadvisable). (various references) tavsiye edilemez (inadvisable), önerilemez. (various references) ngoan cố (bullet-headed, dyed-in-the-wool, froward, opinionated, pertaincious, recalcitrant, tenacious), không nên l m không khuyên bảo được, ương ngạnh (hard-handed, headstrong, pertaincious, stiff-necked, tough, unamenable, wayward, wrong-headed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "unadvisable" (pronounced 'Un`ad*vis"a*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-i-l-n-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: advisable, vandalise. | |
-3 letters: audibles, bandeaus, disvalue, unbiased, unviable, vedalias. | |
-4 letters: abelian, abelias, abulias, abusive, alevins, aliunde, anviled, aubades, audible, audiles, availed, avulsed, baldies, bandeau, bandies, basinal, basined, beduins, belauds, bindles, bundles, denials, devisal, diabase, disable, indabas, inulase, invades, landaus, lesbian, naiades, navaids, nebulas, savable, snailed, subdean, subidea, subline, sundial, unbased, unideal, unlades, unleads. | |
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