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PRONUNCIATION OF ILL-FAVOURED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ILL-FAVOURED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ill-Favoured is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ILL-FAVOURED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ill-favoured in the English dictionary

The definition of ill-favoured in the dictionary is unattractive or repulsive in appearance; ugly. Other definition of ill-favoured is offensive, disagreeable, or objectionable.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ILL-FAVOURED

ill-breeding
ill-concealed
ill-conceived
ill-considered
ill-defined
ill-disposed
ill-equipped
ill-fated
ill-favored
ill-favoredly
ill-favouredly
ill-feeling
ill-fitting
ill-formed
ill-founded
ill-gotten
ill-gotten gains
ill-humoured
ill-humouredly
ill-informed

WORDS THAT END LIKE ILL-FAVOURED

armoured
chocolate-coloured
coloured
contoured
discoloured
enamoured
featured
flavoured
flesh-coloured
good-humoured
honoured
laboured
light-coloured
multicoloured
pastel-coloured
rose-coloured
rust-coloured
time-honoured
unarmoured
uncoloured
unflavoured

Synonyms and antonyms of ill-favoured in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ILL-FAVOURED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ill-favoured» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ill-favoured

Translation of «ill-favoured» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ILL-FAVOURED

Find out the translation of ill-favoured to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ill-favoured from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ill-favoured» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不良青睐
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

feas
570 millions of speakers

English

ill-favoured
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेडौल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سوء حظا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

некрасивый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desfavorecida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিশ্রী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

laides
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak disukai
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

häßlichen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

醜い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

못생긴
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gerah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô duyên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவறான சாதகமாகவே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अयोग्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çirkin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ill - favorita
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chory uprzywilejowanych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

негарний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bolnav favorizate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άχαρος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lelik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ill gynnade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stygge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ill-favoured

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ILL-FAVOURED»

The term «ill-favoured» is normally little used and occupies the 149.493 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ILL-FAVOURED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ill-favoured» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ill-favoured» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ill-favoured

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ILL-FAVOURED»

Discover the use of ill-favoured in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ill-favoured and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Bible: Authorized King James Version
Pharaoh's two dreams 3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven ...
Robert Carroll, Stephen Prickett, 2008
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments
3 And behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and lean fleshed, and stood by the other kine, upon the brink of the river. 4 And the ill favoured and lean fleshed kine, did eat up the seven well favoured and fat  ...
British and Foreign Bible Society (Londres), 1843
3
The Holy Scriptures
3 Acd, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-favoured and lean-fleshed; and stood by the* other kine upon the brink of the river. 4 Acd the ill-favoured and lean- fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat  ...
Joseph Smith, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1867
4
The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments: ...
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean-fleshed ; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 4. And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat  ...
‎1835
5
The pictorial Bible, with notes by J. Kitto
3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured anil leanfleshed ; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. i And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did cat up the seven well favoured and fat i kine  ...
John Kitto, 1855
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The Holy Bible
3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine.
Al Keener
7
Pew Bible-KJV
3 And behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine.
Hendrickson Publishers, 2007
8
The Holy Bible, Etc
3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood b the other kine upon the brink o the river. 4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well So Pharaoh awoke.
‎1831
9
The Holy Bible ... Stereotype Edition. [With the “Porteusian ...
3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine.
‎1835
10
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: ...
3 And. behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-favoured and lean- fleshed i and stood by the other kine, upon the brink of the river. ; And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat  ...
‎1818

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ILL-FAVOURED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ill-favoured is used in the context of the following news items.
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There's gold in that thar copper but BT may not keep it - FT.com
And Goody Harding, the mother hen desperate for a suitor for her ill-favoured quadplay offspring! BW: Tush! You're the incumbent and you ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
2
Michael Kidson, schoolmaster - obituary
“As Mr Gladstone said,” Kidson wrote of an ill-favoured student, “'When we were at Eton we knew little, but we knew it well.' In his case, I fear ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
A Good Samaritan Act for Dialysis Patients
KOCHI: It's common knowledge that autorickshaw drivers in the city have remained one of the most ill-favoured lot here. And getting into the ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
4
Kate Grenville's Secret River gets the TV treatment on ABC
Australia is no fair princess of a place but born and bred as an ill-favoured by-blow of the squalor and criminality of 18th-century industrial ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
5
Happy Martyrs' Day celebrations to UPDF
Kony had just been defeated and Somalia was viewed as an abattoir for the sons of ill-favoured Ugandans. The president's son featured in ... «New Vision, Jun 15»
6
Andrew Dewson: Bernie Madoff must be kicking himself as the …
When nobody goes to jail – and let's face it, nobody does apart from the odd extremely ill-favoured sacrificial wage slave – there is precisely ... «The Independent, May 15»
7
Michael Palin: my seven of the best
... Kentish ragstone tower has become a survivor, a survivor keeping alive the memory of the all-but-lost history of this ill-favoured area. FOR my ... «Church Times, May 15»
8
The Book Quiz: raining cats and dogs (and pigs and horses)
Diogenes, 'a blundering, ill-favoured, clumsy, bullet-headed dog', appears in which Charles Dickens novel? Oliver Twist; Dombey and Son «Irish Times, May 15»
9
George the Poet review - a lesson in rhyme and reason
... ponders the distance his educational accomplishments have taken him from his rough-and-tumble beginnings in the same ill-favoured corner ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
10
It's a hare-raising hunt in the engrossing The Village
Our ill-favoured young hero Bert's family is more desperate than ever in trying to eke a living off the land, so he has embarked on a daring bet ... «Stuff.co.nz, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Ill-Favoured [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ill-favoured>. Apr 2024 ».
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