unusual and unexpected, and usually unpleasant:
That's the plan-unless anything untoward happens. * He had noticed nothing untoward. * The dose can be increased slightly without any untoward effects.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for untoward is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is untoward a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, untoward is tagged as adjective.
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