Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inadvisable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not advisable; inadvisable; inexpedient.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Inadvisable.
  • adjective archaic Unwilling to take advice.
  • adjective archaic Imprudent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not prudent or wise; not recommended

Etymologies

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un- +‎ advisable

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Examples

  • To reduce thousands of years of ornate yet uncertain history to a fortune cookie is unadvisable, but let's sketch a brief outline of the evolution of yoga: during the Vedic period yoga consisted of a group of men screaming primordial sounds generating tapas around a fire trying to unite with the divine.

    Ira Israel: The Future of Yoga in America Ira Israel 2012

  • To reduce thousands of years of ornate yet uncertain history to a fortune cookie is unadvisable, but let's sketch a brief outline of the evolution of yoga: during the Vedic period yoga consisted of a group of men screaming primordial sounds generating tapas around a fire trying to unite with the divine.

    Ira Israel: The Future of Yoga in America Ira Israel 2012

  • ______ Your noble efforts at sentence structure and storyline indicate a promising future but we feel that dividing your focus from your homework at such a tender age is unadvisable.

    SPECIAL CONTEST ACTIVITY 2009

  • To reduce thousands of years of ornate yet uncertain history to a fortune cookie is unadvisable, but let's sketch a brief outline of the evolution of yoga: during the Vedic period yoga consisted of a group of men screaming primordial sounds generating tapas around a fire trying to unite with the divine.

    Ira Israel: The Future of Yoga in America Ira Israel 2012

  • To reduce thousands of years of ornate yet uncertain history to a fortune cookie is unadvisable, but let's sketch a brief outline of the evolution of yoga: during the Vedic period yoga consisted of a group of men screaming primordial sounds generating tapas around a fire trying to unite with the divine.

    Ira Israel: The Future of Yoga in America Ira Israel 2012

  • To reduce thousands of years of ornate yet uncertain history to a fortune cookie is unadvisable, but let's sketch a brief outline of the evolution of yoga: during the Vedic period yoga consisted of a group of men screaming primordial sounds generating tapas around a fire trying to unite with the divine.

    Ira Israel: The Future of Yoga in America Ira Israel 2012

  • I've taken years off between albums, which is extremely unadvisable.

    Jewel on the Natural Drama and Authenticity of Platinum Hit 2011

  • To reduce thousands of years of ornate yet uncertain history to a fortune cookie is unadvisable, but let's sketch a brief outline of the evolution of yoga: during the Vedic period yoga consisted of a group of men screaming primordial sounds generating tapas around a fire trying to unite with the divine.

    Ira Israel: The Future of Yoga in America Ira Israel 2012

  • If there are disciplines in which it's unadvisable to work behind a mask that evokes a creepy video-game character with giant mouse ears, "club-music DJ" is not one of them.

    The Pop Scene: Running Down a Dubstep Dream Andy Battaglia 2011

  • As Csikszentmihalyi wrote, "After just two days of deprivation ... the general deterioration in mood was so advanced that prolonging the experiment would have been unadvisable."

    Christine Carter, PhD: The Trouble with Motherhood PhD Christine Carter 2010

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