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Danger vs Disadvantage - What's the difference?

danger | disadvantage |

As nouns the difference between danger and disadvantage

is that danger is (obsolete) ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise see in one's danger, below while disadvantage is a weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.

As verbs the difference between danger and disadvantage

is that danger is (obsolete) to claim liability while disadvantage is to place at a disadvantage.

danger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
    • "You stand within his danger , do you not?" (Shakespeare, ''Merchant of Venice'', 4:1:180)
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
    • Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
  • (obsolete) Liability.
  • * 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
    • Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
  • (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
  • Exposure to liable harm.
    • "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" ((William Hazlitt), ''Table talk'').
  • An instance or cause of liable harm.
    • "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (''Times'', 5 Sept. 3/2).
  • Mischief.
    • "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, ''Julius Caesar'', 2:1:17).

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * kicking in danger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To claim liability.
  • (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
  • (obsolete) To run the risk.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "danger")

    Related terms

    * dangerous * dungeon * domain * dame * endanger

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary

    Anagrams

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    disadvantage

    English

    Alternative forms

    * disadvauntage (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
    • The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.
  • A setback or handicap.
    • My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.
  • * Burke
    • I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you.
  • * Palfrey
    • Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage .
  • Loss; detriment; hindrance.
  • * Bancroft
    • They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public.

    Synonyms

    * (an undesirable characteristic) afterdeal, con, drawback, downside * (a handicap) afterdeal, weakness

    Antonyms

    * advantage

    Verb

    (disadvantag)
  • To place at a disadvantage.
    • They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
  • * 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
    • For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.

    Synonyms

    * tell against

    Derived terms

    * disadvantageous * disadvantageously * disadvantageousness