disadvantage

1. 1.

   put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm

   “This rule clearly disadvantages me”

   Synonymsdisfavordisfavour

   Antonymsadvantage

   Broaderdiscriminate

   Narrowerhandicapprejudice

Other forms of disadvantage

plural

disadvantages·

past tense

disadvantaged·

present participle

disadvantaging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disadvantage

What does disadvantage mean?

disadvantage means "the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disadvantage?

disadvantage has 4 syllables: dis-ad-van-tage. The stress falls on "van". In IPA it is /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪdʒ/.

What is another word for disadvantage?

Close synonyms include disfavor, disfavour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of disadvantage?

The recorded antonyms are advantage, advantage.

Is disadvantage a common word?

disadvantage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disadvantage?

1 word rhymes with disadvantage. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.