| disadvantage | (n) the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position, Ant. advantage |
| disadvantage | (v) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm, Syn. disfavor, disfavour, Ant. advantage, Example: This rule clearly disadvantages me |
| disadvantageous | (adj) constituting a disadvantage, Ant. advantageous |
| Disadvantage | n. [ Cf. F. désavantage. ] I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ] Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ] They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public. Bancroft. |
| Disadvantage | v. t. [ Cf. F. désavantager. ] To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Disadvantageable | a. Injurious; disadvantageous. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Disadvantageous | a. [ Cf. F. désavantageux. ] Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had been placed, he gave clear indications of future excellence. Prescott. -- |