Disadvantage

Noun

 * 1) A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
 * The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.
 * 1) A setback or handicap.
 * My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.

Synonyms

 * afterdeal, con, drawback, downside
 * afterdeal, weakness

Antonyms

 * advantage

Verb

 * 1)  To place at a disadvantage.
 * They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.

Adjectives for Disadvantage
distinct; physical; immense; tactical; serious; obvious; ungenerous; initial; economic; particular; individual; undue; painful; tremendous.

Verbs for Disadvantage
balance—; conceal—; confront with—; deprecate—; endure—; fight at—; hurdle—; labor under—; place at—; overcome—; regret—; sell at—; surmount—; tug at—; uproot—; weight with—; —hinders; — injures; —obstructs.

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

Etymology
From disavauntage:, from  desavantage:

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * Arabic: سيئة
 * Bulgarian: неизгодно положение
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: haitta, varjopuoli, haittapuoli
 * German:


 * Hebrew: חיסרון (khisaron)
 * Hungarian: hátrány
 * Irish: míbhuntáiste
 * Scottish Gaelic: ana-cothrom


 * Bulgarian: пречка, неудобство
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: haitta, varjopuoli, haittapuoli
 * Hebrew: חיסרון (khisaron)


 * Hungarian: hátrány
 * Irish: míbhuntáiste
 * Scottish Gaelic: ana-cothrom


 * : malavantaĝo

Derived terms

 * disadvantageous
 * disadvantageously
 * disadvantageousness