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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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