What is the opposite for the word advantage

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1. advantagenoun

   Antonyms:
   disadvantage

   Synonyms:
   foredeal, edge, benefit, vantage, value, favor, favorise

2. advantageverb

   To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.

   Antonyms:
   disadvantage

   Synonyms:
   benefit, favorise, favor, foredeal, vantage, value, edge

3. advantagenoun

   To do something for one’s own benefit; to take advantage of.

   The enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.

   Antonyms:
   disadvantage

   Synonyms:
   benefit, favorise, favor, value, foredeal, edge, vantage

4. advantagenoun

   Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

   Antonyms:
   disadvantage

   Synonyms:
   vantage, value, edge, benefit, foredeal

5. advantagenoun

   The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.

   Synonyms:
   vantage, edge, value, foredeal, benefit

   Antonyms:
   disadvantage

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. advantage

   The returns or receipts include all that is received from an outlay or investment; the profit is the excess (if any) of the receipts over the outlay; hence, in government, morals, etc., the profit is what is really good, helpful, useful, valuable. Utility is chiefly used in the sense of some immediate or personal and generally some material good. Advantage is that which gives one a vantage-ground, either for coping with competitors or with difficulties, needs, or demands; as to have the advantage of a good education; it is frequently used of what one has beyond another or secures at the expense of another; as, to have the advantage of another in an argument, or to take advantage of another in a bargain. Gain is what one secures beyond what he previously possessed. Benefit is anything that does one good. Emolument is profit, return, or value accruing through official position. Expediency has respect to profit or advantage, real or supposed, considered apart from or perhaps in opposition to right, in actions having a moral character. Compare UTILITY.

   Antonyms:
   damage, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, loss, ruin, waste

   Synonyms:
   avail, benefit, emolument, expediency, gain, good, improvement, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, returns, service, usefulness, utility, value

   Preposition:
   The profit of labor; on capital; in business.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. advantage

   Antonyms:
   loss, disappointment, defeat, frustration, inferiority, obstacle, obstruction, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, drawback

   Synonyms:
   gain, success, superiority, help, assistance, benefit, good, avail, interest, utility, service, profit, acquisition

Princeton’s WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. advantage, vantagenoun

   the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

   «the experience gave him the advantage over me»

   Antonyms:
   disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour

   Synonyms:
   vantage, reward

2. advantagenoun

   (tennis) first point scored after deuce

   Antonyms:
   disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour

   Synonyms:
   vantage, reward

3. advantage, rewardverb

   benefit resulting from some event or action

   «it turned out to my advantage»; «reaping the rewards of generosity»

   Antonyms:
   disadvantage, disfavour, disfavor

   Synonyms:
   wages, payoff, vantage, reinforcement, reward

4. advantageverb

   give an advantage to

   «This system advantages the rich»

   Antonyms:
   disadvantage, disfavour, disfavor

How to use advantage in a sentence?

1. Oswald Chambers:

   Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

2. Falcon Murphy:

   Everybody but black mayors understands that a deprived minority, like the Italian or Irish used to be, only advance if they use their political power to their economic advantage.

3. Juan Carlos Castanon:

   We’re not thieves, or exploiters, not privileged people who just take advantage of others — this is discrimination.

4. Chief Operations Officer Jan Brockmann:

   In terms of improvement and taking advantage of our global scale, it is the key programme.

5. De Silva:

   Clearly, deals such as the Facebook/WhatsApp merger should probably not have been allowed, one of the things we see more clearly now than we did a few years ago is how the ability to collect and exploit data is a major advantage.

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