handicap

1. 1.

   injure permanently

   “He was disabled in a car accident”

   Synonymsdisableinvalidincapacitate

   Broaderinjure

   Narrowerhock
2. 2.

   attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant

   Broaderbias
3. 3.

   put at a disadvantage

   “The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements”

   Synonymshinderhamper

   Broaderdisadvantage

Other forms of handicap

plural

handicaps·

past tense or participle

handicapped

present participle

handicapping

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 handicap

What does handicap mean?

handicap means "the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in handicap?

handicap has 3 syllables: han-di-cap. The stress falls on "han". In IPA it is /ˈhændiˌkæp/.

What is another word for handicap?

Close synonyms include disability, disablement, impairment, hindrance, hinderance. 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.

Is handicap a common word?

handicap 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 handicap?

7 words rhyme with handicap. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.