Antonyms for untoward
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uhn-tawrd, -tohrd |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈtɔrd, -ˈtoʊrd |
Definition of untoward
Origin :- 1520s, "not having inclination" (to or for something), also "difficult to manage, unruly," from un- (1) "not" + toward.
- adj troublesome
- adj improper; not suitable
- He would not have been a Briton if these untoward combinations of events had not made him surly.
- Extract from : « Hetty's Strange History » by Anonymous
- It would take only an untoward word, a false movement, to start a massacre.
- Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
- He thought not at all of the untoward fortune that had placed him where he stood.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
- Had she been commissioned to tell him of some untoward event?
- Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall
- Truly it is untoward, but I wish, my dear aunt, you would not let it trouble you so much.
- Extract from : « Fairy Fingers » by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- The question was how to guarantee themselves from that untoward eventuality?
- Extract from : « Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by Sutherland Menzies
- Let us state that no untoward event disturbed this family meeting.
- Extract from : « Madame Bovary » by Gustave Flaubert
- He seems to know that some unsettling and untoward event is on the way.
- Extract from : « The Prairie Mother » by Arthur Stringer
- Are you not afraid some untoward event will defeat your honest intentions?
- Extract from : « Up The Baltic » by Oliver Optic
- I love to remember how swiftly Daphne Street took on an air of the untoward.
- Extract from : « Friendship Village » by Zona Gale
Synonyms for untoward
- adverse
- annoying
- awkward
- contrary
- disastrous
- disturbing
- fractious
- hapless
- ill-starred
- improprietous
- inappropriate
- inauspicious
- inconvenient
- indecent
- indecorous
- indelicate
- indocile
- inimical
- inopportune
- intractable
- irritating
- luckless
- malodorous
- misfortunate
- out of place
- perverse
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- rough
- star-crossed
- unbecoming
- uncouth
- undisciplined
- unfavorable
- unfitting
- unfortunate
- ungodly
- ungovernable
- unhappy
- unlucky
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unpropitious
- unruly
- unseemly
- untimely
- unyielding
- vexatious
- wild
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