All disadvantage synonyms
dis·ad·van·tage
D d noun disadvantage
- detriment — If something happens to the detriment of something or to a person's detriment, it causes harm or damage to them.
- harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- prejudice — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
- damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- disservice — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
- drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
- minus — less by the subtraction of; decreased by: Ten minus six is four.
- demerit — The demerits of something or someone are their faults or disadvantages.
- inconvenience — the quality or state of being inconvenient.
- hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
verb disadvantage
- hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.