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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun disadvantage has 1 sense

• disadvantage(n = noun.attribute) Array - the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position; Array
is a kind of liability
has particulars: unfavorableness, unfavourableness, limitation, defect, shortcoming, awkwardness, nuisance value, deprivation, loss, drawback, penalty, inferiority, unfavorable position, inexpedience, inexpediency, unprofitability, unprofitableness
Antonym: advantage
Derived forms verb disadvantage₁, adjective disadvantageous₁

Verb disadvantage has 1 sense

• disadvantage(v = verb.social) disfavor, disfavour - put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm; "This rule clearly disadvantages me"
is one way to discriminate, separate, single out
Antonym: advantage
Derived form noun disadvantage₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

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THESAURUS

disadvantage

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

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Evil

N evil, ill, harm, hurt, mischief, nuisance, machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to, blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation, mortal blow, wound, immedicabile vulnus, damage, loss, disadvantage, prejudice, drawback, disaster, accident, casualty, mishap, bad job, devil to pay, calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy, ruin, adversity, mental suffering, demon, (Evil spirit) bane, (cause of evil), badness, (Production of Evil), painfulness, evil doer, outrage, wrong, injury, foul play, bad turn, ill turn, disservice, spoliation, grievance, crying evil, disastrous, bad, awry, out of joint, disadvantageous, amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost, moving accidents by flood and field.

Inexpedience

N inexpedience, inexpediency, undesirableness, undesirability, discommodity, impropriety, unfitness, inutility, disadvantage, inexpedient, undesirable, unadvisable, inadvisable, objectionable, inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient, incommodious, discommodious, disadvantageous, inappropriate, unfit, ill-contrived, ill-advised, unsatisfactory, unprofitable, unsubservient, inopportune, out of place, in the wrong place, improper, unseemly, clumsy, awkward, cumbrous, cumbersome, lumbering, unwieldy, hulky, unmanageable, impedient, unnecessary, it will never do.

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