Word Meanings - DISADVANTAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke.

Additional info about word: DISADVANTAGE

1. Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage. Palfrey. 2. Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good. They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public. Bancroft. Syn. -- Detriment; injury; hurt; loss; damage.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISADVANTAGE)

• Detriment
• Loss
• harm
• hurt
• injury
• deterioration
• impairment
• disadvantage
• prejudice
• damage
• inconvenience
• Prejudice
• Prepossession
• prejudgment
• predisposition
• bias
• unfairness
• detriment
• partiality

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISADVANTAGE)

• Suit
• aid
• benefit
• subserve
• assist
• help

Related words: (words related to DISADVANTAGE)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• INCONVENIENCE
  1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies
• ASSISTLESS
  Without aid or help. Pope.
• PREJUDGMENT
  The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.
• ASSISTOR
  A assister.
• DETRIMENTAL
  Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison. Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious.
• DAMAGE FEASANT
  Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.
• PREDISPOSITION
  1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger. 2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression,
• SUBSERVE
  To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote. It is a great credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
• BENEFITER
  One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.
• PREPOSSESSION
  1. Preoccupation; prior possession. Hammond. 2. Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions
• DISADVANTAGE
  1. Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke.
• DAMAGEABLE
  1. Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo. 2. Hurtful; pernicious. That it be not demageable unto your royal majesty. Hakluit.
• ASSISTIVE
  Lending aid, helping.
• INDAMAGED
  Not damaged. Milton.
• ENDAMAGE
  To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton.
• ENDAMAGEMENT
  Damage; injury; harm. Shak.
• ENDAMAGEABLE
  Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable.