'Disadvantage' definitions:
Definition of 'disadvantage'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Disadvantage'
From: GCIDE
- Disadvantage \Dis`ad*van"tage\, v. t. [Cf. F. d['e]savantager.] To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Disadvantage'
From: GCIDE
- Disadvantage \Dis`ad*van"tage\ (?; 48, 61), n. [Cf. F. d['e]savantage.]
- 1. Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. [1913 Webster]
- I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage. --Palfrey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good. [1913 Webster]
- They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public. --Bancroft.
- Syn: Detriment; injury; hurt; loss; damage. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disadvantage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- ado,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- annoyance,
- anxiety,
- bar,
- befoul,
- besetment,
- bewitch,
- blight,
- blocking,
- bother,
- burden,
- burthen,
- can of worms,
- cargo,
- charge,
- condemn,
- corrupt,
- cross,
- crucify,
- cumbrance,
- curse,
- damage,
- deadweight,
- defect,
- defile,
- deprave,
- deprivation,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- detriment,
- difficulty,
- disability,
- disaccommodate,
- discommode,
- disoblige,
- disserve,
- disservice,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doom,
- drawback,
- embarrassment,
- encumbrance,
- envenom,
- evil,
- fault,
- flaw,
- freight,
- get into trouble,
- great ado,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- harass,
- harm,
- headache,
- hex,
- hindrance,
- hurt,
- impair,
- impairment,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- impose upon,
- imposition,
- incommode,
- inconvenience,
- infect,
- injure,
- injury,
- jinx,
- liability,
- load,
- loss,
- loss of ground,
- lumber,
- maltreat,
- matter,
- menace,
- mischief,
- mistreat,
- molest,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- onus,
- outrage,
- pack,
- peck of troubles,
- penalty,
- persecute,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- prejudice,
- problem,
- put out,
- put to inconvenience,
- put to trouble,
- savage,
- scathe,
- sea of troubles,
- shortcoming,
- step backward,
- taint,
- threaten,
- torment,
- torture,
- trouble,
- violate,
- weakness,
- weight,
- white elephant,
- worry,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong