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| Main Entry: | handicap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | burden, cripple, encumber, hamper, hamstring*, hinder, hold back, impede, limit, restrict, sideline*, hog-tie, put out of commission, take out* |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, benefit, further, help, promote, give advantage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | handicap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baggage*, barrier, block, burden, detriment, disability, drawback, encumbrance, hindrance, impediment, injury, limitation, load, millstone, obstacle, restriction, shortcoming, stumbling block*, hangup, impairment, psychological baggage |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | handicap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
| Synonyms: | bulge, edge*, favor, head start*, odds, penalty, start, upper hand*, points, vantage |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, drawback, limitation, restriction, shortcoming, impairment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | Achilles' heel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vulnerability |
| Synonyms: | deficiency, frailty, handicap, susceptibility, weakness, chink in the armor, soft underbelly |
| Main Entry: | burden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encumber, strain |
| Synonyms: | afflict, bother, crush, depress, dish out*, encumber, hamper, handicap, hinder, impede, load, obligate, oppress, overcharge, overload, overwhelm, pile, press, snow*, strain, tax, trouble, try, vex, weigh down, worry, bear down on, cumber, dish it out, dump on, give it to, lade, make heavy, saddle with, snow under, stick it to |
| Antonyms: | aid, help, relieve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confuse, make difficult |
| Synonyms: | bedevil, clog, combine, confound, convolute, derange, disarrange, disorder, elaborate, embroil, entangle, fold, foul up*, handicap, impede, interweave, involve, jumble, mix up, muddle, multiply, obscure, perplex, ravel, screw up*, snafu*, snag, tangle, twist, upset, add fuel to fire, infold, interfuse, interrelate, make intricate, make waves, muck up*, open can of worms, render unintelligible, snarl up |
| Antonyms: | disentangle, ease, explain, facilitate, untangle, make simple |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cramp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hinder, restrain |
| Synonyms: | bottle up*, check, circumscribe, clamp, clasp, clog, confine, constrain, encumber, fasten, grip, hamper, hamstring, handicap, impede, inhibit, limit, object, obstruct, restrict, shackle, stymie, thwart, box up, coop up |
| Antonyms: | allow, release, let go |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | detriment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | damage, disability, disservice, drawback, handicap, harm, hurt, injury, liability, loss, mischief, prejudice, impairment, marring, spoiling |
| Antonyms: | advantage, assistance, benefit, gain, help, profit |
| Main Entry: | disable |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | render inoperative; cripple |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, batter, blunt, damage, debilitate, disarm, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring*, handicap, harm, hock*, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh*, knock out*, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, prostrate, ruin, sabotage, sap, shatter, spoil, total*, undermine, unfit, weaken, wreck, disenable, hogtie*, immobilize, pinion, put out of action, render incapable, shoot down*, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, unbrace, unstrengthen |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, enable, help, improve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drawback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | check, defect, deficiency, detriment, difficulty, disability, evil, failing, fault, flaw, handicap, hindrance, hitch, ill, impediment, imperfection, inconvenience, lack, nuisance, obstacle, shortcoming, snag, stumbling block*, trouble, weakness, fly in the ointment |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, boon, extra, perfection |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | encumber |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, burden |
| Synonyms: | block, charge, clog, cramp, discommode, embarrass, hamper, handicap, hinder, hold up, impede, inconvenience, load, obstruct, oppress, overburden, overload, retard, saddle, tax, trammel, weigh down, weight, hang up, hog-tie, incommode, lade, make difficult, saddle with, slow down |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help |
| Main Entry: | encumbrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | albatross, ball and chain, cross, debt, duty, guilt, handicap, hindrance, impediment, load, millstone, monkey on one's back, obstruction, responsibility, saddle, thorn in one's side, weight, worry |
| Main Entry: | equalize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make the same; balance |
| Synonyms: | adjust, compare, coordinate, emulate, equal, equate, establish, even, handicap, level, match, parallel, rival, smooth, socialize, square, standardize, trim, commeasure, communize, democratize, even up, regularize |
| Antonyms: | disproportion, imbalance, vary, unmatch |
| Main Entry: | hamper |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | impede, restrict |
| Synonyms: | baffle, balk, bar, bind, block, check, clog, cramp, cramp one's style, cumber, curb, drag one's feet, embarrass, encumber, entangle, fetter, foil, frustrate, get in the way, hamstring*, handicap, hang up*, hinder, hobble, hog-tie, hold up*, inconvenience, inhibit, interfere with, leash, obstruct, prevent, restrain, retard, shackle, slow down, stymie, thwart, tie, tie one's hands, tie up, trammel |
| Antonyms: | aid, allow, assist, encourage, expedite, help, permit, promote |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hamstring |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disable |
| Synonyms: | cripple, debilitate, handicap, hinder, hobble, impair, lame, maim, mangle, paralyze, weaken, immobilize |
| Main Entry: | hinder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prevent, slow down |
| Synonyms: | arrest, balk, bar, block, bottleneck, burden, check, choke, clog, contravene, counteract, cramp, crimp, cripple, curb, debar, delay, deter, encumber, fetter, frustrate, hamper, hamstring*, handicap, hold back, hold up, impede, inhibit, interfere, interrupt, muzzle, neutralize, obstruct, offset, oppose, preclude, prohibit, resist, retard, shut out, snafu*, stay, stop, stymie*, terminate, thwart, trammel, box in, crab, get in the way, hog-tie, louse up |
| Antonyms: | advance, aid, allow, assist, encourage, facilitate, forward, further, help, permit, promote, push |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hindrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction, difficulty |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22*, albatross*, baggage*, ball and chain, bar, barrier, catch, check, clog, crimp, deterrent, drag, drawback, encumbrance, glitch*, gridlock, handicap, hang-up*, hitch, impediment, interference, interruption, intervention, joker, limitation, lock, millstone*, monkey wrench*, obstacle, restraint, restriction, snag, stoppage, stumbling block*, trammel, cumbrance, excess baggage, foot dragging, impedance, jam-up |
| Antonyms: | advance, aid, assistance, encouragement, expedition, help, promotion, push |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hurdle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | barrier, obstacle |
| Synonyms: | bar, barricade, blockade, complication, difficulty, fence, hamper, handicap, hedge, hindrance, impediment, interference, mountain, obstruction, rub, snag, stumbling block, traverse, wall |
| Notes: | hurdle refers to a difficulty or obstacle; hurtle means to move with great speed or violence |
| Antonyms: | opening, clear path |
| 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: | interfere |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | meddle, intervene |
| Synonyms: | baffle, balk, barge in, busybody*, butt in*, conflict, discommode, foil, frustrate, hamper, handicap, hinder, hold up, horn in, impede, inconvenience, inhibit, intercede, intermediate, interpose, intrude, jam, make*, obstruct, obtrude, oppose, prevent, remit, step in, stop, suspend, tamper, thwart, trammel, trouble, fool with, get in the way, get involved, hang up*, incommode, interlope, intermeddle, intermit, mix in, poke nose in |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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