unadvisable
adjEtymology From un- + advisable.
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Inadvisable.
- No steps were taken to enforce it, as, from the financial embarrassment of the company and the uncompleted state of the line, litigation was unadvisable.1941 June, C. Hamilton Ellis, Charles E. Lee, “The Welsh Highland Railway—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 251:
- Will go back there to get it in a week or so, but may find the harvest unadvisable for reasons of security.1948, William Burroughs, letter, 5 Jun 1948
2
Archaic Unwilling to take advice.
- Together with pride there will naturally arise an unadvisable and unconvincible spirit.1853, John Wesley, edited by John Emory, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, Volume 1:
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Archaic Imprudent.
- Derived terms
- unadvisableness, unadvisably