disadvantage
disadvantage is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accident
- adversity
- and
- awry
- back
- bad
- badness
- balance
- bale
- bane
- become
- below
- blow
- bottom
- box
- bruise
- buffet
- calamity
- candle
- casualty
- catastrophe
- cause
- come
- commonalty
- contract
- contracted
- cost
- crying
- damage
- decrease
- deficiency
- deficient
- demon
- destruction
- deterioration
- devil
- disadvantageous
- disaster
- disastrous
- disservice
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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