untoward

Meaning

1. Unfavourable, adverse, or disadvantageous.
2. Unruly, troublesome; not easily guided.
3. Unseemly, improper.

Synonyms

unfavorable

adverse

unfortunate

perverse

inauspicious

unseemly

bad

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indecorous

unsympathetic

indecent

unexpected

annoying

unfavourable

vexatious

unbecoming

improper

uncomely

unlucky

froward

grim

grouching

ill-mannered

inclement

infelicitous

intractable

irritating

longing

luckless

morose

nasty

nonsensical

odd

peevish

pettish

pity

plaguey

plaguy

queer

recalcitrant

rude

seamy

shrewish

splenetic

sudden

sullen

surly

testy

thorny

tough

unacknowledged

unanticipated

unapparent

unappealing

unappetizing

unattractive

uncaused

uncomfortable

unenlivened

unforeseeable

unforeseen

unfriendly

unhappy

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unhoped

unhoped-for

uninteresting

unlooked-for

unmanageable

unobvious

unpleasant

unpropitious

unruly

unsuspected

unthought

unthought-of

unwelcome

unwished

upsetting

vexed

vixenish

waspish

wayward

yearning

unappetising

unlikable

unwished-for

illtempered

untractable

unbeneficed

unsweet

splenish

abrupt

there is something amiss

absurd

accidental

arid

awkward

bloody-minded

bothersome

cantankerous

captious

causeless

crabbed

cranky

cross

disagreeable

drab

embarrassing

fortuitous

fretful

Translations

ongunstig

ters

huysuz

indócil

adverso

aksi

desfavorable

uygunsuz

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌʌn.tʊˈwɔːd/

Etymology

From un- + toward (“to + -ward”).