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Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had been placed, he gave clear indications of future excellence. Prescott. -- D…

Misfortune; mishap. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Unprosperous; unfortunate. [Obs.] Spenser.

To advise against; to dissuade from. [R.] Boyle.

alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness. They had attempted to disaffect and discontent his majesty's late army. Clarendon.

Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal. J. H. Newman. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ness, n.

State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike. In the making laws, princes must have regard to . . . the affections and disaffections of the people. Jer. Taylor.

Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. [R.] Blount.

To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.

The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.

The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.

e of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone.

To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

unlike; to be at variance. They reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because it seems disagree with what they call reason. Atterbury.

ongruous; Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and each nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. Udall.

The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.

In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.

Disagreement. [Obs.]

The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.