Definition of Disadvantage
Disadvantage
Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury.
Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good.
To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.
Related Definitions:
Advantage,
Be,
Circumstance,
Condition,
Credit,
Deprivation,
Detriment,
Detrimental,
Fame,
Good,
Hindrance,
Injure,
Injury,
Interest,
Like,
Loss,
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Or,
Other,
Prejudice,
Prejudicial,
Profit,
Quality,
Success,
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Unfavorable,
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Disadvantage Quotations
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W. Clement Stone
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Marilyn vos Savant
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving
Every disadvantage has its advantage.
Johan Cruijff
Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.
Ron Chernow
Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
Carter Burwell
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.
Tim Bishop
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Edsger Dijkstra
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
Henry Bessemer
Disadvantage Translations
disadvantage in Dutch is nadeel, schaduwzijde, minpunt
disadvantage in German is Nachteil, Nachteil, Benachteiligung
disadvantage in Italian is pregiudizio
disadvantage in Norwegian is ulempe
disadvantage in Portuguese is desvantagem
disadvantage in Spanish is perjudicio
disadvantage in Swedish is nackdel
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