| Main Entry: | disability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage, restriction |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailment, defect, detriment, disqualification, drawback, impairment, inability, incapacity, incompetency, inexperience, infirmity, injury, invalidity, lack, unfitness, weakness |
| Notes: | debility is the state of being weak in health or body; disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; inability is lack of mental ability or physical ability to do something |
Antonyms: |
advantage, fitness, strength |
| Main Entry: | birth defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | congenital abnormality |
Synonyms: |
abnormality, congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital malformation, deformity, disability, mutation |
| Main Entry: | detriment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage |
Synonyms: |
damage, disability, disservice, drawback, handicap, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, liability, loss, marring, mischief, prejudice, spoiling |
Antonyms: |
advantage, assistance, benefit, gain, help, profit |
| Main Entry: | disadvantage(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty, trouble |
Synonyms: |
adverse circumstance, bar, blocking, burden, defect, deficiency, deprivation, detriment, disability, discommodity, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, fly in the ointment, hamper, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, imperfection, imposition, inadequacy, inconvenience, inutility, lack, liability, limitation, minus, nuisance, objection, obstacle, privation, problem, restraint, snag, stumbling block, weak point, weakness |
Antonyms: |
advantage, good fortune |
| Main Entry: | drawback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage |
Synonyms: |
check, defect, deficiency, detriment, difficulty, disability, evil, failing, fault, flaw, fly in the ointment, handicap, hindrance, hitch, ill, impediment, imperfection, inconvenience, lack, nuisance, obstacle, shortcoming, snag, stumbling block, trouble, weakness |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, boon, extra, perfection |
| Main Entry: | handicap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage |
Synonyms: |
affliction, baggage, barrier, block, burden, detriment, disability, drawback, encumbrance, hangup, hindrance, impairment, impediment, injury, limitation, load, millstone, obstacle, psychological baggage, restriction, shortcoming, stumbling block |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, help |
| Main Entry: | illness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; bad health |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailing, ailment, attack, breakdown, bug*, collapse, complaint, confinement, convalescence, disability, diseasedness, disorder, disturbance, dose, failing health, fit, flu, ill health, indisposition, infirmity, malady, malaise, poor health, prostration, relapse, seizure, sickness, syndrome, unhealth, virus, what's going around |
| Notes: | illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
Antonyms: |
good health, health, well-being, wellness |
| Main Entry: | malady |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease |
Synonyms: |
ache, affection, affliction, ailment, attack, blight, bug*, cancer, complaint, condition, contagion, debility, disability, disorder, distemper, epidemic, fever, flu, ill health, illness, infection, infirmity, inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus |
| Main Entry: | trouble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad health |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailment, complaint, curse, defect, disability, disease, disorder, failure, illness, malady, malfunction, upset |
Antonyms: |
fitness, good health |