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disadvantage - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | disadvantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt, loss |
| Synonyms: | damage, deprivation, detriment, disservice, harm, injury, prejudice |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, gain, profit |
| Main Entry: | disadvantage(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty, trouble |
| Synonyms: | bar, burden, defect, deficiency, deprivation, detriment, disability, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hamper, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, imperfection, imposition, inadequacy, inconvenience, lack, liability, limitation, minus, nuisance, objection, obstacle, privation, problem, restraint, snag, stumbling block*, weakness, adverse circumstance, blocking, discommodity, fly in the ointment, inutility, weak point |
| Antonyms: | advantage, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deprivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking, keeping away; need |
| Synonyms: | denial, destitution, detriment, disadvantage, distress, hardship, loss, privation, removal, seizure, want, withdrawal, withholding, deprival, dispossession, divestiture, divestment, expropriation |
| Antonyms: | endowment, giving, indulgence, offer, offering, presentation, supply, bestowal |
| Main Entry: | downside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a negative aspect of a situation |
| Synonyms: | defect, disadvantage, drawback, fault, flaw, inconvenience, minus, problem, trouble |
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury; damage |
| Synonyms: | ache, blow, bruise, chop, detriment, disadvantage, disaster, discomfort, disservice, distress, down, gash, harm, ill, loss, mark, mischief, misfortune, nick, ouch, outrage, pain, pang, persecution, prejudice, ruin, scratch, sore, suffering, wound, wrong, black and blue, boo-boo, ill-treatment, soreness |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cure, healing, help, remedy |
| Main Entry: | impediment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction, hindrance |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22*, bar, barricade, barrier, block, bottleneck*, burden, catch*, chain, check, clog, cramp, curb, defect, delay, deterrent, detriment, difficulty, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, encumbrance, fault, flaw, handicap, hazard, hitch, holdup, hurdle, inhibition, load, manacle, millstone*, obstacle, prohibition, red tape*, restraint, restriction, road block*, rub*, setback, shackle, snag, stoppage, stricture, stumbling block*, tie, trammel, wall, blockage, dead weight, retardation, retardment |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, furtherance, help, support, facilitation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inconvenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bother, trouble |
| Synonyms: | aggravation, annoyance, awkwardness, difficulty, disadvantage, disruption, disturbance, drawback, exasperation, fuss, hindrance, nuisance, pain*, stew*, trial, uneasiness, upset, vexation, bothersomeness, cumbersomeness, troublesomeness, unfitness, unhandiness, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unwieldiness |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, convenience, profit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
| Synonyms: | accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, need, perdition, privation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage, dispossession, impairment, mislaying, misplacing, retardation, squandering |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | misfortune/mishap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad luck; disaster |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, annoyance, anxiety, bad news*, blow*, burden, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, contretemps, cross, crunch, debacle, disadvantage, disappointment, discomfort, dole, failure, hardship, harm, inconvenience, loss, misadventure, mischance, misery, nuisance, reverse, setback, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, unpleasantness, visitation, worry, bad break, casuality, hard luck, infelicity, rotten luck, stroke of bad luck, tough luck |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, fortune, good luck |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | punishment |
| Synonyms: | amends, cost, disadvantage, discipline, dues, fall, fine, forfeit, forfeiture, handicap, mortification, mulct, price, rap*, retribution, amercement, damages |
| Antonyms: | award, forgiveness, pardon, reward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | privation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deprivation |
| Synonyms: | destitution, disadvantage, hardship, indigence, lack, necessity, need, poverty, want, neediness |
| Main Entry: | snag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complication in situation |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22, bar, barrier, blockade, brake, bug*, catch, clog, crimp, crunch, curb, difficulty, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, fix*, glitch, hamper, hitch, holdup*, hole*, hurdle, impediment, inconvenience, knot, obstacle, obstruction, pickle*, problem, scrape, spot, stumbling block, cropper, puzzler, the rub, tight spot |
| Antonyms: | advantage, convenience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misfortune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disaster |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, annoyance, anxiety, bad luck, bad news, blow, burden, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, contretemps, cross, crunch, debacle, disadvantage, disappointment, discomfort, dole, failure, hardship, harm, inconvenience, loss, misadventure, mischance, misery, mishap, nuisance, reverse, setback, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, unpleasantness, visitation, worry, bad break, hard luck, infelicity, rotten luck, tough luck, unluck |
| Antonyms: | piece of luck |
| Main Entry: | liability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden, debt |
| Synonyms: | IOU*, account, bad news*, baggage*, balance, bite*, chance, chit*, contingency, contract, damage, debit, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, due*, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, indebtedness, involvement, lease, loan, millstone*, minus, misfortune, mortgage, nuisance, obligation, onus, pledge, possibility, remainder, responsibility, tab, arrear, arrearage, indebtment |
| Antonyms: | asset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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