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Disadvantage

Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury.

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Defect 76% connected

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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Deprivation 76% connected

The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

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Drawback 76% connected

A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.

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Inexpedience 76% connected

Alt. of Inexpediency

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Inexpediency 76% connected

The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures.

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Inferiority 76% connected

The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.

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Limitation 76% connected

The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.

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Loss 76% connected

The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

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Penalty 76% connected

Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commissio…

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Shortcoming 76% connected

The act of falling, or coming short

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Discriminate 76% connected

Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

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Liability 76% connected

The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Hamper 76% connected

A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which…

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Handicap 76% connected

An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additiona…

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Hinder 76% connected

Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.

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Prejudice 76% connected

Foresight.

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Disadvantageous 74% connected

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army…

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Disadvantageous 74% connected

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army…

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Disfavor 92% connected

Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.

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Advantage 94% connected

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantag…

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Advantage 94% connected

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantag…

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