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Synonyms for disadvantage
ˌdɪs ədˈvæn tɪdʒ, -ˈvɑn-dis·ad·van·tage

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Wiktionary5.0 / 2 votes

  1. disadvantageverb

    Synonyms:
    tell against

    Antonyms:
    advantage

  2. disadvantagenoun

    To place at a disadvantage.

    They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.

    Synonyms:
    tell against, afterdeal, downside, con, drawback

    Antonyms:
    advantage

  3. disadvantagenoun

    My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.

    Antonyms:
    advantage

  4. disadvantagenoun

    Synonyms:
    afterdeal, weakness

English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. disadvantage

    Injury (Latin in, not, and jus, juris, right, law) signifies primarily something done contrary to law or right; hence, something contrary to some standard of right or good; whatever reduces the value, utility, beauty, or desirableness of anything is an injury to that thing; of persons, whatever is so done as to operate adversely to one in his person, rights, property, or reputation is an injury; the word is especially used of whatever mars the integrity of the body or causes pain; as, when rescued from the wreck his injuries were found to be very slight. Injury is the general term including all the rest. Damage (Latin damnum, loss) is that which occasions loss to the possessor; hence, any impairment of value, often with the suggestion of fault on the part of the one causing it; damage reduces value, utility, or beauty; detriment (Latin deterere, to rub or wear away) is similar in meaning, but far milder. Detriment may affect value only; damage always affects real worth or utility; as a rule, the slightest use of an article by a purchaser operates to its detriment if again offered for sale, tho the article may have received not the slightest damage. Damage is partial; loss is properly absolute as far as it is predicated at all; the loss of a ship implies that it is gone beyond recovery; the loss of the rudder is a damage to the ship; but since the loss of a part still leaves a part, we may speak of a partial or a total loss. Evil commonly suggests suffering or sin, or both; as, the evils of poverty, the social evil. Harm is closely synonymous with injury; it may apply to body, mind, or estate, but always affects real worth, while injury may concern only estimated value. A hurt is an injury that causes pain, physical or mental; a slight hurt may be no real harm. Mischief is disarrangement, trouble, or harm usually caused by some voluntary agent, with or without injurious intent; a child's thoughtless sport may do great mischief; wrong is harm done with evil intent. An outrage combines insult and injury. Compare synonyms for BLEMISH; CRIMINAL; INJUSTICE.

    Synonyms:
    blemish, damage, detriment, evil, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, injustice, loss, mischief, outrage, prejudice, wrong

    Antonyms:
    advantage, amelioration, benefit, blessing, boon, help, improvement, remedy, service, utility

    Preposition:
    The injury of the cause; an injury to the structure; injury by fire; by or from collision, interference, etc.

Princeton's WordNet1.5 / 4 votes

  1. disadvantageverb

    the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position

    Antonyms:
    vantage, advantage

  2. disadvantage, disfavor, disfavourverb

    put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm

    "This rule clearly disadvantages me"

    Synonyms:
    disfavour, disfavor

    Antonyms:
    vantage, advantage

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. disadvantagenoun

    Synonyms:
    unfavorableness

  2. disadvantagenoun

    Synonyms:
    injury, loss, damage, detriment, disservice, prejudice, hurt

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. disadvantagenoun

    Synonyms:
    inconvenience, detriment, hindrance, drawback, inexpediency

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How to use disadvantage in a sentence?

  1. Societe Generale analyst Andrew Holland:

    The disadvantage is that the buyback would have to be done as a tender offer, which would probably have to be at a premium to whatever ABI's shares trade on at the time.

  2. Young Kim:

    Race-based admissions standards at Harvard unfairly disadvantage higher achieving students and these policies go against our American values and divide us as a nation, all students should have the opportunity to pursue their dreams, and they should be charged on their merits and not be discriminated against because of their race or background.

  3. Ilse Aigner:

    We have to step on the brakes of electricity costs. Germany's energy transition must not become a decisive disadvantage and a risk to our welfare.

  4. Agent Alan Herman:

    We don’t particularly care to be lied to our face, they took him out of the free agent market now for two days. That puts us now at a disadvantage because other teams have paid other defensive linemen contracts, and (Ioannidis) hasn’t been able to take advantage of that. That’s not the way you conduct business in the National Football League.

  5. Carletha CeCe Cole:

    “Majority of the world’s creativity, power, intellect, and influence is in the minds of women and children. Ironically, these same demographics are largely at a disadvantage socially and economically. We are focused on empowering dreams and changing lives one woman and one child at a time.”


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