favourless

English

Alternative forms

• favorless

Etymology

From favour +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪvə(ɹ)ləs/

Adjective

favourless (comparative more favourless, superlative most favourless)

1. (archaic) unfavoured; having no countenance or support
2. (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